"Go ahead and shoot the dogs in the head": Garcia's police shoot, bomb and gas protestors in Peru!

[EFerrari]

"Amazon Indigenous peoples are not first class citizens in Peru"
Peru's president Alan Garcia, justifying his attacks on civilians using snipers and bombs, which has caused between 35 to 85 deaths and hundred of injured people.

Peruvian Police Accused of Massacring Indigenous Protesters in Amazon Jungle

Dozens of people are estimated to have been killed in clashes between police and indigenous activists protesting oil and mining projects in the northern Peruvian Amazonian province of Bagua. Peruvian authorities have declared a military curfew, and troops are patrolling towns in the Amazon jungle. Authorities say up to twenty-two policemen have been killed, and two remain missing. The indigenous community says at least forty people, including three children, were killed by the police this weekend.

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/6/8/peruvian_police_accused_of_massacring_indigenous


Please send a message to President Garcia:

http://www.amazonwatch.org/peru-action-alert.php

There are emergency rallies today in DC and Los Angeles. I expect more will be organized until this violence is abated. Stay tuned. DUer magbana's extensive list of contact information in this OP:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=405&topic_id=16071&mesg_id=16071