Huancayo Square, Junin, Peru - Slideshow

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Justice, Peruvian style

Here's a video of what happened yesterday in the Peruvian town of Huancayo.

Two thieves were caught red-handed while trying to steal jackets from a stall in Huancayo's Central Market. They (siblings Javier and Rosario Rojas) then went through the following:

• stripped to their underwear

• hands tied behind their backs

• a paper with "I'm a Thief" taped to their chests

• paraded around the central market so that everybody could see their faces

• jeered and shouted at

• at the end of the parade, buckets of cold water poured over them

• finally the two were handed in to the local police station

Note that the two were not physically injured throughout their ordeal. I'll leave it to you to decide whether all the above was a good or bad thing but I will say that the Inca laws of Ama Sua, Ama Quella, Ama Llulla (look 'em up for yourselves if you care enough) are alive and well and living in the Central Highland region of Peru.

Peru's forces of law and order caught on video

On Thursday June 11th there were demonstrations in support of the Amazon indigenous all over Peru. Here comes a video that shows how Peru's National Police Force (PNP) dealt with the demostrations.

This video was shot in the town of Huancayo. Later Peruvian national media reported that incident as "Five Police Injured in clashes with University Students" and talk about how police came under "a hail of stones". Stunningly, not a mention in Peruvian media as to how dozens of police officers used powerful slingshots to stone protestors.

Watch the video. Pretty incredible four minutes worth of raw footage of how those "humble police officers" treat citizens when (they think) nobody is looking (watch out from about minute 3 when they really get busy with those slingshots). A very large hat tip, once again, to The Huanca York Times.