Top Peruvian foe of illegal logging brutally slain

[Judi Lynn]

19. They were assassinated a few days ago. It took his widow six days on the river to tell authorities.

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His machete didn't protect him from all the loggers guns once they opened up on him and his neighbors.

Apparently his wife just got the news to "civilization" in the last day or two.

It really is bad for the whole world when things like this can happen. So damned sad.

Oh, Peru has militia's alright! They've used them to claim they were pursuing Sendero Luminoso (Shining Light), while they would slaughter all kinds of indigenous Puruvians, including the filthy act of approaching a small town, asking the men to dig out a pond which they would fill with fish for them to use for food. They men obliged, then the Puruvian military gathered the people together and shot them all, and buried them in the pit. They've been full of ideas like that and all with full support of the U.S. Gov't throughout.

The current President hasn't ordered any massacres, knock on wood. He seems to be more moderate, and leftish than the others.

Oh, yes: there was a massacre of a lot of people several years ago, under Alan "Two Breakfasts" Garcia, when he had his military shoot directly into a lot of Amazonian indigenous people, with NO guns. He also brought in helicopters from which they were able to bag more people before they were finished. That event was called the Bagua Massacre.

That concerned the Gov't trying to sell their land to international corporations, as well, which was actually illegal. He accused them of being selfish for wanting to remain upon the only land they had ever known, all the way back to their remote ancestors.