At least one civilian was killed and 100 people were injured in “Gen Z" protests in Peru, prompting investigations by authorities on Thursday as protesters demanded the resignation of Peru's new president and lawmakers after a recent bout of political turmoil in the South American nation.

After a month of protests taking place mostly on weekends, demonstrations called by young Peruvians, transport workers and civil groups came to a head on Wednesday and ended violently late in the night.

The protests began calling for better pensions and wages for young people and now rail against rising crime and corruption, expanding to capture the woes of Peruvians tired of decades of disillusion with their government.

They demand the resignation of interim President José Jerí and members of Congress, as well as the repeal of a new package of security laws amid a rise in murders and extortion.

In Peru, a country perpetually locked in waves of political controversy, new protests broke out just days after Peru's congress ousted President Dina Boluarte, who has been rocked by scandals and was known as one of the least popular presidents in the world.

Shortly after, Peru swore in its seventh president in less than a decade, 38-year-old José Jerí, who promised to get a recent crime wave under control and swore in Ernesto Álvarez, an ultraconservative former judge active on social media, as prime minister.

Many Generation Z protesters carried black flags with a symbol from the Japanese anime One Piece — a pirate skull with a straw hat — similar to other flags displayed in protests against governments in Nepal, Madagascar, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Morocco.

‘We live in a climate of insecurity; there’s uncertainty, and the authorities are colluding with criminals. The march is about that," said protester Francis Tirita, linking the reasons of the generational discontent.

Protesters consider that the interim president José Jerí's support for criminal reform makes him and other politicians accomplices with the rise of crime.

These laws include narrowing the definition of crimes against humanity, eliminating preliminary detention in cases where suspects are not detained in flagrante delicto, preventing political parties from being prosecuted as criminal groups, raising the requirements for confiscating assets from criminal groups, and demanding the presence of a public defendant during raids.

Protesters' anger was built upon decades of frustration by Peruvians, who have seen their leaders, year after year, plagued by corruption scandals, fueling a feeling of cynicism and deception in many of Peru's youth.

AP Video by Mauricio Muñoz