page_title: Quechua people
section_title: Examples of recent persecution of Quechuas
hierarchical_section_title: Quechua people / Examples of recent persecution of Quechuas
caption_attribution_description: La legisladora Hilaria Supa Huamán expresa su posición en el debate parlamentario realizado esta tarde por el Pleno congresal
context_page_description: Quechua people or Quecha people, may refer to any of the indigenous people of South America who speak the Quechua languages, which originated among the indigenous people of Peru. Although most Quechua speakers are native to the country of origin, there are some significant populations living in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and Argentina.
  The most common Quechua dialect is Southern Quechua. The Kichwa people of Ecuador speak the Kichwa dialect; in Colombia, the Inga people speak Inga Kichwa.
  The Quechua word for a Quechua speaker is runa or nuna; the plural is runakuna or nunakuna. "Quechua speakers call themselves Runa -- simply translated, 'the people.'"
  Some historical Quechua people are:
  The Chanka people, who lived in the Huancavelica, Ayacucho, and Apurímac regions of Peru.
  The Huanca people of the Junín Region of Peru, who spoke Quechua before the Incas did.
  The Inca, who established the largest empire of the pre-Columbian era.
  The Chincha, an extinct merchant kingdom of the Ica Region of Peru.
  The Qolla who inhabited the Potosi Potosi, Oruro, and La Paz departments of Bolivia.
  The Cañari of Ecuador, who adopted the Quechua language from the Inca.
context_section_description: Up to the present time Quechuas continue to be victims of political conflicts and ethnic persecution. In the Peruvian civil war of the 1980s between the government and Sendero Luminoso about three-quarters of the estimated 70,000 death toll were Quechuas, whereas the war parties were without exception whites and mestizos (people with mixed descent from both natives and Spaniards).
  The forced sterilization policy under Alberto Fujimori affected almost exclusively Quechua and Aymara women, a total exceeding 200,000. The Bolivian film director Jorge Sanjines dealt with the issue of forced sterilization in 1969 in his Quechua-language feature film Yawar Mallku.
  Perceived ethnic discrimination continues to play a role at the parliamentary level. When the newly elected Peruvian members of parliament Hilaria Supa Huamán and María Sumire swore their oath of office in Quechua—for the first time in the history of Peru in an indigenous language—the Peruvian parliamentary president Martha Hildebrandt and the parliamentary officer Carlos Torres Caro refused their acceptance.
caption: Hilaria Supa, human rights activist and Peruvian politician
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