June 5th. 2009 ...Violent Confrontations in Bagua Peru:
Initial Reports from the Ground
Eye-witness reports from:
(1) Local indigenous people, via a staff member of AIDESEP who is from the reg...
June 5th. 2009 ...Violent Confrontations in Bagua Peru: Initial Reports from the Ground
Eye-witness reports from:
(1) Local indigenous people, via a staff member of AIDESEP who is from the region and has family, friends there, as told to Gregor MacLennan (Amazon Watch, currently in Lima)
Initial information: * Around 2am, the police began amassing near protesters, who were blocking the road in a locale called Curva de Diablo. Protesters did not move. * Around 5:30 am 6:00 am helicopters dropped teargas from above. On the ground, police started to attack, firing gun shots from outset. * As protesters were feeling, the police were shooting at and killing indigenous people. * Reportedly in self defense, some indigenous people took control of police firearms and shot back, killing several police officers (The police are claiming that the protesters were armed with guns from the beginning and initiated the exchange of gunfire, a claim denied by eye-witnesses) * When an international NGO worker was trying to film and photograph the situation, a policeman fired a teargas bomb in her face. She said that the police also were prohibiting other press from filming. * As injured and dead were being transported toward the town of Bagua Chica, they have been detained at a police control post at Milagros. Only injured police have been allowed to pass. Injured indigenous have been detained at the police station, an undetermined number dying there for lack of medical attention. * An ambulance driver was also attacked and injured. * Protesters have retreated to the Cruce de Bagua, between where they were blocking the road and the town of Bagua. * In Bagua, the police firing shots into the air as they looked for indigenous leaders. Two non-indigenous residents are reported killed. Now the non-indigenous population is protesting police presence and have reportedly taken control of the police station and government offices including the APRA offices, COFOPRI and PRONAA. * Reports of deaths include at least four indigenous protesters (Santiago Valera, Luis Yankun, Feliz Dupis, and Luis Jintas), two Bagua towns people, and four police officers.
Context: * On Tuesday the constitutional committee of congress was suspended from debating the constitutionality of the other legislative decrees because the APRA participants did not turn up. * Yesterday congress was scheduled for the second time to debate the constitutionality of 1090, but again suspended the debate. * Yesterday the Defensoría del Pueblo published a report to the constitutional tribunal on the unconstitutionality of law 1064. * Yesterday the local chief of police confirmed that he had orders from above to open the roads in the next 24 hours. The indigenous protesters had agreed not to allow anyone passed.
Genocide and oppression !!! ...in the name of development and greed.
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and the images of the 24 policemen that were brutally killed that same day? the fact that they were protesting against laws that were made to preserve the rain forest in the first place? or the fact that the greatest pollutans are informal and not foreign companies as they argue?
we are speaking of decades of a centralized Govt. that doesn't follow its own rules... and of a people that are constantly ignored. The Bagua death toll doesnt compare to the numerous deaths within the indigenous communities as a result of environmental contamination and dislocation - BY BOTH INT. AND NATIONAL CORPS. As i stand here in the Amazon and see people dying ... its burns me to read your comment, but then again ... you are obviously limited to the right information and EXPERIENCE.
When are the slice and splice morons of the Western "Democracies going to start to show the same type of human rights to all indiginous populations that they so criticise others for not doing.
Where there is oil involved greed and malace precede common sence and respect, western politics? democracy? only as it suits the bonehead hypocrites that crawl out the cesspit whilst claiming they want to represent us.
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This is so messed up.. You see the way the people are dressed and you realize they are no so different from us.. How horrible this must be for them and all of the people in that area. We humans are our own worst enemy. Things like this should not happen.
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Peru: Blood Flows In The Amazon
By James Petras
Where there is oil involved greed and malace precede common sence and respect, western politics? democracy? only as it suits the bonehead hypocrites that crawl out the cesspit whilst claiming they want to represent us.
Garbage all politicians crave, like many others is power whilst wrecking everything
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