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Indians accused over “Devil’s Bend” killings go on trial
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Police break up road blockade near Bagua, Peru, June 5th
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Fifty-three people go on trial in Peru today, charged in connection
with violent
clashes between indigenous protesters and
police<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=76366a124b&e=fdc6267ad9>five
years ago that left thirty-three dead.
The violence erupted in June 2009 after more than 50 days of nationwide
protests<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=f559080013&e=fdc6267ad9>led
by Peru’s Amazon Indians over government plans to strip the Indians of
their rights, and open up the Amazon to oil drilling and mining.
The clashes took place in Peru’s northern Amazon town of Bagua, after
police confronted indigenous protesters who had peacefully blockaded a
highway at a place known as “Devil’s Bend” for almost two months.
Twenty-three police officers, five Indians and five civilians were killed
and more than 200 injured during the incident, according to a report by
Peru’s Ombudsman. Unofficial reports have claimed the death toll was much
higher.
Amongst those charged is Alberto
Pizango<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=9446857e68&e=fdc6267ad9>,
the president of Peru’s Amazon Indian Organization AIDESEP. The prosecution
has called for Pizango to be imprisoned for life for “inciting violence”.
Since the clashes, several of the government’s controversial
decrees<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=b59ac1b9c4&e=fdc6267ad9>have
been repealed. In 2011, Peru’s President Ollanta Humala approved a law
designed to guarantee indigenous peoples’ right to free, prior and informed
consent to any projects affecting them and their lands.
However, since then the government has approved a controversial expansion
of the massive Camisea gas
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even though it will penetrate deep into the territory of uncontacted
Indians.
Peru’s government has been heavily criticized by both indigenous people and
families of the deceased police officers for its failure to prevent the
violence.
No police officers have yet been brought to trial.
Read Survival’s eyewitness report of the Bagua killings
here<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=cfa029e59f&e=fdc6267ad9>
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