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Armed police attack indigenous protesters in northern Peru. Photo: Amazon WatchViolence erupted between indigenous people and the government forces over giving oil drilling rights to a foreign company, threatening the ecology
Peru’s leading Amazon indigenous organisation, AIDESEP, has alleged that the report by Peru’s Ombudsman on the recent violence in the rainforest was not ‘definitive’.
‘The Ombudsman only visited 22 per cent of the Awajún and Wampis communities,’ said a statement from AIDESEP. ‘In total there are 181 communities, but the Ombudsman visited only 39.’
The Ombudsman’s report concluded that 23 policemen, five ‘civilians’, and five ‘indigenous people’ were killed, and that no one has ‘disappeared’, as initial reports had claimed. Peru’s government has now seized on the Ombudsman’s report as conclusive evidence that there were no disappearances of local tribes.
AIDESEP’s acting leader, Daysi Zapata Fasabi, said that the definitive investigation into the number of indigenous people who have disappeared will be carried out by a Truth Commission, established in the aftermath of the recent violence. Meanwhile, AIDESEP has threatened to withdraw from talks with the government if it continues with its political persecution of Peru’s indigenous peoples and fails to fulfil its promises.
Peru's government had given the green signal to an Anglo-French company to drill for oil in the Amazon, just thirteen days after more than 30 people killed in protests against the exploitation of the Amazon rainforest.
These indigenous tribes are on the verge of extinction due to disease and loss of land to multi-national companies, which are destroying the pristine forests for oil drilling, gas exploration, hydroelectric damming and logging throughout the Amazon.
‘The Ombudsman only visited 22 per cent of the Awajún and Wampis communities,’ said a statement from AIDESEP. ‘In total there are 181 communities, but the Ombudsman visited only 39.’
The Ombudsman’s report concluded that 23 policemen, five ‘civilians’, and five ‘indigenous people’ were killed, and that no one has ‘disappeared’, as initial reports had claimed. Peru’s government has now seized on the Ombudsman’s report as conclusive evidence that there were no disappearances of local tribes.
AIDESEP’s acting leader, Daysi Zapata Fasabi, said that the definitive investigation into the number of indigenous people who have disappeared will be carried out by a Truth Commission, established in the aftermath of the recent violence. Meanwhile, AIDESEP has threatened to withdraw from talks with the government if it continues with its political persecution of Peru’s indigenous peoples and fails to fulfil its promises.
Peru's government had given the green signal to an Anglo-French company to drill for oil in the Amazon, just thirteen days after more than 30 people killed in protests against the exploitation of the Amazon rainforest.
These indigenous tribes are on the verge of extinction due to disease and loss of land to multi-national companies, which are destroying the pristine forests for oil drilling, gas exploration, hydroelectric damming and logging throughout the Amazon.
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