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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 01:26 PM
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"Go ahead and shoot the dogs in the head": Garcia's police shoot, bomb and gas protestors in Peru!

"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



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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 01:31 PM
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1. Eyewitness Reports Accuse Peruvian Police of Disposing the Bodies of Dead Indigenous Protesters
Bagua, Peru (June 8, 2009) – In the aftermath of Friday's bloody raid on a peaceful indigenous road blockade near Bagua in the Peruvian Amazon, numerous eyewitnesses are reporting that the Special Forces of the Peruvian Police have been disposing of the bodies of indigenous protesters who were killed. "Today I spoke to many eyewitnesses in Bagua reporting that they saw police throw the bodies of the dead into the Marañon River from a helicopter in an apparent attempt by the Government to underreport the number of indigenous people killed by police," said Gregor MacLennan, spokesperson for Amazon Watch.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3912997&mesg_id=3912997
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 01:55 PM
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7. Garcia is a puppet
People aren't free in their own land.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 02:06 PM
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9. The repression and dispossession must be very bad
if the people are demonstrating.

I hope the State Department says SOMETHING about these deaths.
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enid602 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 01:33 PM
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2. Inca Empire
Actually, as of two days ago, all but one of those killed were Peruvian Police. Nonetheless, Garcia´s comments are horrific. These hostilities are taking place in the Peruvian province of Amazonas, and the indigenous people about whom he speaks are more akin to Brazilian indigenous peoples, and do not resemble the Inca majority in Peru.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 01:39 PM
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4. Two days ago, the media was not *reporting* the deaths of civilians.
Amy talked about that today.
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 01:54 PM
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6. Of course they weren't reporting them. They were HIDING the bodies.
Edited on Mon Jun-08-09 02:03 PM by Judi Lynn
No reason for anyone else to worry his/her pretty little head about any of this. Just let the corporate interests slaughter the indigenous people so they can get on with business.

Unbelievable, simply unbelievable what people will swallow when they refuse to do their research.

It's good to know Amy has discussed this already.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 01:56 PM
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8. Only some people swallow M$Greedia's
disinformation.
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:19 PM
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32. The English-speaking media ignored the brewing crisis.
A few days ago, this could have been prevented.

This is a result of Bush policies and Bush/Corporate actors in Peru.
Obama needs to get rid of the Bushites, Peru needs to get rid of Garcia!
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:29 PM
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33. We worry about phantom "Islamic" terrorists while the people are being killed
by American "allies" in Peru and Colombia and probably with our money, too.

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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:33 PM
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36. This may be one of the most criminal atrocities since Tienamen Square.
Government simply killing their people, shooting unarmed civilian protesters. What an unbelievable calamnity.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:40 PM
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40. Why are indigenous people still being called dogs and slaughtered in the year 2009?
Why is this allowed? :shrug:

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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:52 PM
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44. Because they were still chattel in 1970?
Peru has a very sad history of racism, and slavery only just ended a few decades ago.

In 1988, someone told me the solution was to just kill all the Indians. He was dead serious.

In 1970, there was no respect for Native Community lands. We had no funds for surveying boundaries in the dense jungle. I was able to create Native Land Reserves by imposing a new method, drawing a line across the river and declaring the drainage the reserve. This method provided protected watersheds. We started a bunch of reserves this way, and 20 years later all that was official, mapped even. Now, the progress of recent decades is under attack from the rich outsiders again.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 04:02 PM
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48. Someone told me in 1985 that the solution in El Salvador
was to "go clean the indians out of the hills". He was a nice man who was courting me at the time, a medical student and I've never spoken to him again. He was also serious and his own face belied his rhetorical distance from the people whose deaths he advocated.

Hannah's post somewhere here said some of the "developers" are Brazilian. Is that right? If so, we need to push on Lula.

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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:32 PM
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35. You bet they are, just as they stone-walled the 30,000 people who vanished in Argentina,
the crowds of leftists, teachers, clergy, etc. tortured and murdered in Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, all OVER Latin America, and all the people getting tortured and murdered in Colombia to this day.

We're supposed to ignore anything we might accidently hear, and go out and get busy shopping, apparently.
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 02:43 PM
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17. ABSOLUTELY FALSE. Those killed are the indigenous Indian protesters.
Those killed ARE the indigenous Indian protesters.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 02:46 PM
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19. Have you heard anything today, L. Coyote?
That bastard Garcia has to be stopped.
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 02:54 PM
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23. Son mas de 100 hermanos AWAJUN asesinados, de los cuales hasta el momento hay 6 niños menores de 10
Edited on Mon Jun-08-09 03:04 PM by L. Coyote


http://www.capital.com.pe/2009-06-05-lista-de-victimas-por-enfrentamientos-entre-la-pnp-y-nativos-en-bagua-noticia_186173.html

Algunos articulos para contextualizar el proceso.
Son mas de 100 hermanos AWAJUN asesinados, de los cuales hasta el momento hay 6 niños menores de 10 años.
La desinformacion de los medios de comunicacion tiene que ser balanceada por los medios alternativos como este, difundir y preparar movilizacion del 11 de junio, los pueblos amazonicos siguen luchando en carreteras en estos momentos, Yurimaguas resiste.


Friends and Family:

Please hardcopy the letter and send to Obama. It has my signature. You can also hardcopy the attached essay and send it with the letter to your Congressional delegation.

You are free to print the following as a letter to the Editor and/or use the attached document for a story. Or see the attached letter to Obama.


For the last couple of years I have been writing about the problemas with the Peru-U.S. Free Trade Agreement ( FTA = TLC in Peru).

Now Mr. Bush, although out of office, and the United States, can be tagged with another 25 (and still raising) deaths, this time in the Peruvian Amazon. Another 100 or more people have been wounded. The conflict has not terminated.

Not only was the FTA imposed on Peru by the U.S. and Garcia, but so were 102 "decree laws". A decree law (D.L.) is very much like a presidential order, very much like you were living in a dictatorship. Most of the 102 D.L.s run against the Peruvian Constitution and aim to expropriate private property of communities and transfer the rights to multinational oil and gas companies.

Although these properties have been used for hundreds of years by the Amazon and highland peoples, they often do not have registered or up-dated land titles. This is also do to the government failure (and the failure of international organizations like the Interamerican Development Bank and the World Bank) who have avoided titling these lands although these programs have been in operation for almost 20 years. Now we know why: it makes it easier for rich and powerful Peruvians and their international business allies to take over these lands. Besides contaminating and deforesting the Amazon, a grave environmental threat, the ultimate consequence is to destroy the Amazon and highland peoples by taking away their lands.

The U.S. Congress must be held responsible for the Amazon massacre since the U.S. Embassy was the key promotor of the undemocratic process used to get a FTA with Peru. The U.S. government refused to push for a Referandum on the FTA in Peru. The government and Garcia knew that it would likely not be approved. So this is not just a simple error in judgment: the U.S. government made the decision to support Garcia completely (and through the CIA, to support newscasters) in PREVENTING A REFERANDUM.

The next thing which the U.S. government did was to help Garcia write 102 "decree laws" to favor large capitalists and multinational corporations. These were written by the same lawyers who represent these companies, in SECRET. THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO CONSULTATION BY THE GOVERNMENT OR THE COMPANIES WITH the hundreds OF THE PERUVIAN COMMUNITIES WHICH WOULD BE IMPACTED BY THESE DECREE (DICTATORIAL) LAWS. Actually, these 102 dictatorial laws imposed what must be called a "new" Peruvian Constitution because they cut accross all economic and political sectors. According to the Peruvian Constitution and the International Labor Organization 169 Agreement which Peru signed, "consultation " with the communities is mandated by law. Based on the lack of "consultation", virtually all of these laws are unconstitutional .

In short, the United States Government promoted a FTA through a totally undemocratic process, not by bad judgment but on purpose as part of Bush's way of doing business.

The present U.S. Ambassador and Director of USAID were part of this process and should be removed as soon as possible if Obama has any substance in his politics and wishes to send a strong message. The FTA agreement with Peru should be suspended until:

1- a Referendum in Peru is implemented where the People decide if they want a FTA.

2- the 102 laws are rescinded or re-written with the full participation of the people.

David Bayer
P.O. Box 139
Ica,Peru

Tel: 51-56-256036
former U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Ica, Peru (1964-66)
former USAID Deputy Executive Officer, Lima , Peru (1993-2002)

Supporting documents and information for the essay above:

Much of the material which follows is in English. You just have to find it.STUDY THE PICTURES.Go down to "Peruanista" (half way down) and you will get to the English part and web connections to see pictures of the massacre.

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Colegas:

Por favor , ver los adjuntos.

Como provoco la matanza el gobierno de Garcia? Ordeno el Congreso no votar sobre los tres Decretos que han sido declarados inconstitucionales. Mando los militares y la policia con armas para matar la gente.

Decretos 1090 y 994 estaban declarados inconstitucional por la Comision Constitucional del Congreso. D.L. 1064 fue declarado inconstitucional por la Defensoria del Pueblo.

Los pueblos Amazonicos pedian la derogatoria de estas leyes, mas no asistir a "mesas de dialogo" donde Yehude Simon les toma el pelo.

El dialogo debia haber sido tomado por el CONGRESO: votando sobre los decretos!

NO VIVIMOS EN UN ESTADO DE DERECHO bajo el Gobierno de Garcia. Todo depende en lo que le antoja el dictador y el Congreso que el manda.

El gobierno de Garcia es totalmente responsable para la matanza de la gente en la Amazonia y la policia. Seguramente el numero real va alcanzar mas de 100 cuando todos los informes entran.

Tambien la Embajada de los EEUU es responsable porque ha promovido y avalado un TLC bajo un proceso totalmente anti-democratico, sin Referandum. Animo la redaccion en secreto de los Decretos de Leyes atraves de sus negociaciones con el gobierno Peruano y su representacion de las empresas multinacionales. Finalmente, fue la CIA que ayudo en el fraude electoral que puso Garcia en poder.

El gobierno de Garcia es un gobierno violento. Garcia lleva la sangre del asesinato de 250 prisioneros del Fronton en sus manos y campesinos inocentes en Ayacucho.

Garcia es un corrupto. Ha robado millones, incluyendo los $ 200 millones de la venta de aviones Mirage. Tambien la CIA encubre todos los hechos relacionado a estos robos y matanzas, sobornando los medios de comunicacion para que quedan en silencio durante la campana electoral como parte del fraude.


La mayor parte de los 102 Decretos de Ley impuesto por Garcia son inconstitucionales y deben ser derogados.

Por lado de los EEUU, estan violando el TLC en dos areas fundamentales: (1) no hay proteccion para el Medio Ambiente y (2) no hay el derecho real de sindicalizacion y el acceso a los beneficios para los trabajadores. Son dos clausulas del TLC que NO SE CUMPLEN. En este sentido, el Convenio esta siendo violado por las dos partes y se puede exigir que se rompe el Convenio del TLC.

El TLC no tiene sustento legal en el Peru: no fue aprobado por la poblacion en un referendum y los DLs fueron redactados en "secreto".

1- han violado OIT 169 y la Constitucion del Peru , al escribir los DLs. Fueron escritos "en secreto" por los abogados de las grandes empresas multinacionales, sin la consulta previa con los pueblos.

2- no habia un proceso DEMOCRATICO porque no hubo "Referendum". El pueblo Peruano no tuvo una oportunidad de discutir y conocer el TLC en un proceso electoral. Finalmente, Garcia mentio al pueblo que voto por el porque prometio revisar el TLC.

Este PROCESO ANTI-DEMOCRATICO pisotea los derechos basicos de todos los Peruanos. Por eso la mayor parte de los decretos deben ser derogados y modificados. Por eso, es el gobierno y los Apristas en el Congreso que estan violando las leyes del Peru.

david
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Pero maniobra del APRA impide que derogatoria pase al pleno
Comisión de Constitución declaró inconstitucional el decreto legislativo 994

Con 8 votos a favor y siete en contra se aprobó la inconstitucionalidad del decreto legislativo 994 en la comisión de Constitución.

Tras tres horas de discusión en la comisión de constitución, el decreto fue declarado inconstitucional con el voto de los parlamentarios Edgard Reymundo (BP), Marisol Espinoza (PNP), Daniel Abugattás (PNP), Víctor Andrés García Belaunde (AP), Rolando Sousa (AF), Martha Moyano (AF), Víctor Mayorga (UPP) y Karina Beteta ( UPP ).

Mientras los apristas Aurelio Pastor, Jorge del Castilllo, Mauricio Mulder, Javier Valle Riestra, José Vargas (presidente de la comisión de Constitución) y Javier Bedoya (UN) y Luis Galarreta (UN) votaron en contra.

A pesar de contar con mayoría en la Comisión de Constitución, el presidente de la mesa, el aprista Javier Vargas, no exoneró del trámite necesario para que el decreto sea visto en el pleno.

Por el contrario, los oficialistas presentaron un recurso de reconsideración para apelar esta votación, por lo que este decreto podría ser de nuevo visto en la Comisión de Constitución si se aprueba esta apelación.

" Esta maniobra es una provocación para los pueblos indígenas que amerita que el congresista José Vargas sea llevado a la comisión de ética", consideró el portavoz nacionalista Daniel Abugattas.

SE ADJUNTA EL INFORME Y EL DECRETO LEGISLATIVO 994

LIMA, 26 DE MAYO DE 2009
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Ante el Tribunal Constitucial

DEFENSORÍA DEL PUEBLO PRESENTA DEMANDA DE INCONSTITUCIONALIDAD CONTRA EL DECRETO LEGISLATIVO N° 1064
Nota de Prensa N° 108/OCII/DP/2009

Por vulnerar los derechos fundamentales, previstos en la Constitución Política y en el Convenio N° 169 de la OIT.

La Defensoría del Pueblo presentó hoy ante el Tribunal Constitucional una demanda de inconstitucionalidad contra el Decreto Legislativo N° 1064 por vulnerar los derechos de identidad cultural, de la propiedad de la tierra y de consulta previa de los pueblos indígenas, previstos en la Constitución Política y en el Convenio N° 169 de la Organización Internacional de Trabajo (OIT).

Si bien el Decreto Legislativo precisa que su objeto es ?crear las condiciones necesarias para el desarrollo de la inversión privada en el sector agrario?, lo que en realidad está normando es la modificación y afectación del régimen jurídico de las tierras de las comunidades campesinas y nativas.

El inciso 19 del artículo 2 y el artículo 89 de la Constitución Política prescriben una protección especial de las referidas comunidades, de acuerdo con los Tratados Internacionales suscritos y ratificados por el Perú, así como con la jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de los Derechos Humanos (CIDH) y los órganos de control de la OIT.

Para la Defensoría del Pueblo, la afectación resulta agravada porque el Decreto Legislativo también vulnera el artículo 6 del Convenio N° 169 OIT, el cual reconoce el derecho fundamental de los pueblos indígenas a ser consultados respecto de las medidas susceptibles de afectarlos directamente, consulta que no ha sido realizada en el presente caso, de acuerdo con los parámetros establecidos internacionalmente.

La demanda muestra cómo, al emitir el Decreto Legislativo N° 1064, el Poder Ejecutivo ha excedido los límites de la delegación de facultades que le otorgara el Congreso de la República, contraviniendo de este modo el artículo 104 de la Constitución.

Asimismo se evidencia la imposibilidad de que el Poder Ejecutivo regule derechos fundamentales como el de identidad cultural, mediante un decreto legislativo, toda vez que, conforme a la Constitución, esta es una materia que solo puede ser legislada por el Congreso de la República.

En ese sentido, la Defensoría del Pueblo precisa que el Congreso de la República solo autorizó al Poder Ejecutivo a regular aspectos relacionados con la implementación del Acuerdo de Promoción Comercial Perú?Estados Unidos, y que este ámbito de delegación no puede ser interpretado de manera extensiva, como se ha hecho en este caso, más aún cuando se afectan derechos fundamentales de las personas.

Finalmente, la Defensoría del Pueblo anunció que continuará analizando en detalle los Decretos Legislativos, a fin de determinar si éstos afectan o no derechos fundamentales.

Lima, 04 de junio del 2009.
Oficina de Comunicaciones e Imagen Institucional
Defensoría del Pueblo
Telefax: 3110300 anexo 1403
prensa@... ? www.defensoria.gob.pe

--Abre tu boca en favor del que no tiene voz,por la causa de los abandonados,abre tu boca, busca la justicia y defiende la causa del mísero y del pobre. (Proverbios 31, 8-9)

"El mayor castigo para quienes no se interesan por la política es que serán gobernados por personas que sí se interesan". Arnold J. Toynbee

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Hoy he muerto, hoy me han baleado. Hoy me han torturado, me arrastraron y mi cuerpo ha sido quemado y tirado al furioso río. Hoy yo he sido el estudiante de arte baleado en el pecho, la niña de cuatro anitos baleada en el estómago, he sido el cuerpo inmóvil sangrante que la policía peruana ha rematado cobardemente, soy la madre que ha visto a su hijo morir temblando. He sido el indígena que enloqueció y he quemado edificios del gobierno de Perú porque ellos no me representan. Soy la victima del racismo genocida de los derechistas apristas, fujimoristas, alanistas de gobierno de García. Hoy estoy herido, hoy he muerto, hoy estoy tirado en una carretera de Bagua, mi cuerpo será devorado por los animales, porque mi familia y amigos están desesperados pues la policía los balea cada vez que intentan recogerme. Hoy soy el indígena peruano, soy mi pueblo, mi sangre, mi dolor, mi herida, mi cadáver. Hoy te pido, te exijo, te demando Alan García:
renuncia, vete, lárgate, tú no eres mi presidente, llévate a tus malditos mafiosos asesinos contigo, Un día terminaras detrás de rejas. Maldito, asesino, genocida, racista, matón, me das asco Alan García.
Today I died, I was shot today. Today I was tortured, they dragged my body and then burned me down. My remains were thrown to the furious river. Today I was the art student shot in the chest, the four year old girl shot in the stomach. Mine was the immobile and bleeding body that the Peruvian Police has shot again cowardly, I am the mother who has seen his son diying while my body was shaking. I was today the Indigenous man who went cracy and burned the government of Peru?s facilities because they do not represent em. I am the victim of genocidal racism of the right-wing Garcia government with the complicity apristas and fujimoristas. Today I'm hurt, I died today, today I am lying on a road of Bagua, and my body will be eaten by animals, because my family and friends are hopeless as the police are shooting everyone who wants to rescue me. Today I am the indigenous Peruvian, I am my people, my blood, my pain, my inquiry, my body. Today I ask you, I
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6 junio 2009
Cronología de una matanza anunciada:
Noviembre de 2007: García publica en el ?prestigioso? diario ?El Comercio? sus tan inteligentes artículos ?el perro del hortelano? y ?el perro del hortelano reloaded?, donde nuestro supremo presidente dice:
?El primer recurso es la Amazonía. Tiene 63 millones de hectáreas y lluvia abundante. En ella, se puede hacer forestación maderera especialmente en los 8 millones de hectáreas destruidas, pero para eso se necesita propiedad, es decir un terreno seguro sobre 5.000, 10.000 o 20.000 hectáreas , pues en menos terreno no hay inversión
formal de largo plazo y de alta tecnología.
Ahora solo existen las concesiones que dependen de la voluntad del Gobierno y del funcionario que puede modificarlas. Por eso nadie invierte ni crea un puesto de trabajo por cada dos hectáreas como debería ser; ni hay elaboración de la madera y exportación de muebles. En su mayoría, esas concesiones rapiña solo han servido para sacar la madera más fina, deforestar y abandonar el terreno.
Por el contrario, la propiedad formal por grandes empresas colectivas como los fondos de pensiones permitiría hacer inversiones de largo plazo desde la siembra hasta la cosecha años después.
Los que se oponen dicen que no se puede dar propiedad en la Amazonía (¿y por que sí en la costa y en la sierra?). Dicen también que dar propiedad de grandes lotes daría ganancia a grandes empresas, claro, pero también crearía cientos de miles de empleos formales para peruanos que viven en las zonas más pobres. Es el perro del hortelano.?
¿Alguna mención a los pueblos indígenas?
No hay, seguimos en la época del caucho al parecer?.
12 de diciembre de 2007, García pide al Congreso facultades pa legislar (sacar decretos legislativos) temas referentes a la implementació n del TLC, ojo según la Constitución , cuando se piden facultades pa legislar, estas son específicas, y solo se puede legislar sobre la materia que se ha establecido, en este caso TLC.
19 de diciembre de 2007, el Congreso, como siempre tan raudo y eficiente, le da las facultades, artículo 2: el contenido de estos decretos se limitará a lo concerniente al TLC. Las facultades son por seis meses.
28 de junio de 2008, o sea un poquitito antes que acabe el plazo pa legislar, saca una cantidad (sic: 102 D.L.s) de Dec. Leg., algunos regulaban hasta el tema de universidades, definitivamente mucho que ver con el TLC?
Septiembre y agosto de 2008, empiezan las paralizaciones de los pueblos indígenas, en contra de estos decretos.
Agosto de 2008, paralización de los pueblos indígenas (AIDESEP agrupa a 1350 comunidades nativas): el Congreso derogó el D.L. 1015 (la ley de la selva, que permitía comprar, con el acuerdo de tres personas, toda la propiedad de la comunidad. También la Defensoría presentó una demanda de inconstitucionalida d contra este D.L., porque era ¡¡faltozaso!!) y el D.L. 1073. Javier Velazquez Quesquén, dice que conformará una comisión pa evaluar los decretos legislativos.
Diciembre 2008, la comisión del Congreso presentó su informe, pero Quesquén dice que lo presentará el 1 de febrero, ya que los congresistas estaban de vacaciones.
1 de febrero de 1009, llegó el día del plazo, Quesquén no dijo esta boca es mía.
12 de marzo, AIDESEP envía cartas a Velásquez Quesquén y a Simon recordándole cual había sido su compromiso.
9 de abril, no hay respuesta alguna de las autoridades (ya pasó un mes de las cartas!!!, ya pasaron 3 meses de que Quesquén se comprometió a presentar el informe!!!). Los líderes (ojo, no solo Pizango, cada comunidad tiene un jefe que lo representa) acuerdan iniciar la paralización, pero las restringen al interior de sus comunidades.
18 de abril, en vista que nadie les hace caso ?en una entrevista Simón calificó sus demandas como caprichos, frente a un permisivo (por no poner otro adjetivo) Althaus? decide radicalizar la protesta.
20 de abril, se reúnen en la PCM. Simon se comprometió con AIDESEP a formar una comisión multisectorial (poder ejecutivo y AIDESEP), pero ante la prensa Simon dice que firmará la resolución para esa comisión multisectorial cuando se levante el paro.
24 de abril, Quesquén dice que presentará el informe de la comisión multipartidaria (ese que debía poner a debate el 1 de febrero, porque en enero los congresistas estuvieron de vacaciones), pero? pero? pero antes debía ser aprobado por la junta de portavoces? la junta de portavoces no aprobó su pase a pleno.
Última semana de abril, Tarapoto y Yurimaguas se unen al paro.
9 de mayo, el gobierno declara en emergencia distritos amazónicos de 5 regiones del Perú. Estado de emergencia: en caso de perturbación de la paz o del orden interno, de catástrofe o de graves circunstancias que afecten la vida de la NACIÓN ? (eso dice la constitución, bien clarito, que afecte la vida de la nación).
11 y 13 de mayo, Pizango se reúne con Simon, no llegan a ningún acuerdo. Simon dice que Pizango le habla a él en castellano, pero por teléfono, se dirige a ?los nativos? en su ?dialecto? (¿no sabe un primer ministro la diferencia entre dialecto e idioma?, ¿porque Aldito no se queja de eso?)
15 de mayo, Pizango dice lo del derecho a la insurgencia.
16 de mayo, Alan dice: ?la selva es de todos los peruanos y no sólo de un grupo? (¿¿no sabe acaso lo que implica el derecho a la propiedad y a la posesión??, ¿¿¿no sabe que muchos pueblos tienen títulos de propiedad desde los 70???? ahh verdad a él lo votaron de derecho de la Católica. Le recordamos lo que el Código Civil dice sobre el Derecho a la propiedad: ?es el poder jurídico que permite usar, disfrutar, disponer y reivindicar un bien. Debe ejercerse en armonía con el interés social y dentro de los límites de la ley?).
Ese mismo día los dirigentes se reúnen con la Defensoría del Pueblo y anuncian que la protesta será dentro del Estado de Derecho.
19 de mayo, el D.L. 1090 (ley forestal y de fauna silvestre) es declarado inconstitucional por la comisión del Congreso, su derogatoria entonces ahora tendría que ser DEBATIDA (ojo no solo votada) por el pleno del Congreso.
22 de mayo, la tía Charo (Rosario Fernández) denuncia a Pizango por alentar la rebelión, la sedición y la conspiración y dice: "Hemos escuchado los argumentos del señor Pizango y no parecen de un nativo desprevenido. "
4 de junio: al caballazo suspendieron el debate de la derogatoria: Mulder interpuso una cuestión previa pa suspender el debate y la votación sobre esa ley hasta que la comisión multisectorial (si, la misma de Simon con los indígenas, que desde el 13 de mayo está entrampada), remita un informe sobre los decretos cuestionados.
Ese mismo día la Defensoría del Pueblo presenta una demanda de inconstitucionalida d ante el TC: el D.L. 1064 vulnera los derechos constitucionales de propiedad de la tierra y de consulta previa de los pueblos indígenas.
5 de junio: 369 ?efectivos? de la DINOES (Dirección Nacional de Operativos Especiales) completamente armados, más personal de las Fuerzas Armadas (también súper armados), van a levantar la protesta, teniendo como consecuencia: 4 policías muertos y más de 20 indígenas muertos. Sale el jefe de la Policía a decir que como ?los nativos están usando armas? eso demuestra la infiltración. Conclusión de su racionamiento (incluido el de la tía Charo): como son indígenas, no pueden usar armas (su cerebro no se los da pa tanto) y deben ser desprevenidos?.
Ana María Vidal
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Reporte desde Bagua Grande

Esta informacion es de fuente primaria emitido por señor ALDO AMPAM DUPIS. En la madrugada de hoy la polcia en primera parte lanzo bomba lacrimogena por aire y tierra, despues empezo el orden de disparo directamente al cuerpo y no al aire. Los Awajun solamente con sus lanzas se han defendido y no como dicen que han respondido con disparos, eso es totalmente maniobra de señora Mercedes Cabanillas, Jose Velazques Quesquen, Alan Garcia y Yehude Simon. El Resultado de este enfrentamiento deja 32 muertos y heridos:

Muertos
Santiago Valera Manuig, Presidente de Comite de Lucha (Santa Maria de Nieva)
Luis Jintash Esamak, Comunidad Nativa Kusu Listra
Luis Yagkug, Jefe Comunidad Nativa Chipe
4 Awajun muertos sin determinar los nombres
4 Wampis muertos sin determinar nombres
Abel Silva, Estudiante de Bagua
Florencio Pintado, Bagua
3 Heridos del centro de Marañon

Heridos
Dionicio Quiaco, Comunidad Nativa de Mamayaque-Cenepa
33 Heridos Awajun, hospitalizado en Bagua Grande (2 muy grave)
15 Heridos hospitalizado en la ciudad de Jaen

Desaparecido:
Jose Martin, Comunidad Nativa Mamayaque

Asimismo invito que visiten estas direcciones

http://codesopiaperu.blogspot.com

http://www.flickr.com/photos/diogenesampam/sets/72157618828518022/

http://www.rpp.com.pe/2009-06-05-el-hospital-de-bagua-chica-colapso-por-la-cantidad-de-heridos-noticia_186062.html

http://www.rpp.com.pe/2009-06-05--nos-estan-metiendo-bala-como-si-fueramos-delincuentes-o-animales-noticia_186089.html


--DIOGENES AMPAM WEJIN
Unión de indigenas será una nueva alternativa de desarrollo en el mundo
Calle Chinchon 258 Dpto C
Lima 27-Peru
movil(511) 99221058

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Bloody repression in the Peruvian Amazon at the hands of the government of Alan Garcia
Urgent: Between ten and twenty dead. Call for protests at Peruvian Embassies around the world in compliance with the declaration of the IV Continental Summit of the Indigenous Peoples and Nations of Abya Yala.
At dawn today, the government of Alan Garcia Perez unleashed bloody repression in the Peruvian Amazon. Information is still being verified and there is no official count so far but reports indicate between 10 and 20 deaths in Bagua, Zona de Corral Quemado y Curva del Diablo. Once again, death is imposed over life ? massacre over dialogue. This is the dictatorial response to 56 days of peaceful indigenous protest, supposed dialogues and negotiations, which have ended in bullets as always ? the same bullets have been fired for 500 years of oppression.
CAOI (The Andean Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations) issues an urgent call for international solidarity with the Amazonian Peoples of Peru by organizing protests every day at Peruvian Embassies around the world, until the blood bath ceases and legislative decrees issued under the U.S.-Peru FTA are repealed. CAOI also calls for Alan Garcia to be brought to justice at the international level for deaths that have occurred.
These acts occur hours after the Congress of Peru, in an open act of provocation, once again postponed the debate on the repeal of the pro-FTA legislative decrees that open the way for the invasion of indigenous territories. The government has deployed numerous police contingents to the Amazon.
We call on indigenous organizations, social movements and human rights organizations throughout the world to take concrete actions: letters to the Government of Peru, the UN Special Rappateur for Indigenous Peoples and the Interamerican Comission for Human Rights.
Today in Lima, social movements of Peru are mobilizing at 5pm to demand a stop to the repression and repeal of the legislative decrees impacting the territorial rights of the Amazonian and Andean indigenous peoples and national sovereignty.
CAOI (The Andean Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations)
ALERT: Massacre in Peru Police shoot at Amazon Indigenous civilians - more than 38 people dead PLEASE TAKE ACTION! Send a letter to Peru government
The government of Peru has ordered for the National Police to attack the Amazonian Indigenous peoples. Civilians were shot from buildings roofs and helicopters.

More than 38 people have died so far ? at 2:00 PM U.S. Eastern time- including 28 civilians and 10 police men, according to a Twetter sent by a Peruvian journalist who is in the area of Bagua, a city located in the Amazonas region of Peru. Hospitals collapsing.

Indigenous peoples in Peru have been on strike for the last 52 days protesting against free trade policies that would allow multinationals to take over their territories.

An email arrived this morning, thanks to Q Initiative:
At this moment the police is attacking Indians and also the rest of the population in the cities of Bagua Grande and Bagua Chica, in the departmento (region) of Amazonas. There are lots of killings, but the radio only talks about the policemen that have died.

The central argument is this one: how can the government be right in this situation, if the WHOLE POPULATION (indians and not indians) are against the police (and soon the armed forces which is being deployed)?
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No más muertes

Los argumentos no pueden ser rebatidos con la violencia: Alto a la masacre de los pueblos indígenas


Lamentamos profundamente la muerte hasta ahora de 25 dirigentes indígenas y pobladores de Bagua así como de 7 miembros de las fuerzas policiales.

Después de 55 días de paro indígena amazónico y negociaciones, el gobierno aprista ha iniciado el ataque por aire y tierra sobre la población indígena, campesina y mestiza de Bagua, provocando una respuesta violenta pero, sobre todo, buscando criminalizar la protesta y deslegitimar la naturaleza justa de la demanda indígena.

Esta acción gubernamental no es casual ni aislada sino que es la respuesta desesperada a los acontecimientos de la víspera. El pasado jueves 4 de junio la bancada aprista logró boicotear el acuerdo de debatir en el pleno del Congreso el dictamen que considera inconstitucional al Decreto Legislativo 1090. Sin embargo, ese mismo día, la Defensoría del Pueblo presentó una acción de inconstitucionalidad contra el Decreto Legislativo 1064 ante el Tribunal Constitucional, dándole la razón a los reclamos de los pueblos indígenas.

El gobierno en vez de atenerse a la práctica democrática de oír las recomendaciones de las instituciones establecidas, rompió el dialogo y desde las 5 de la mañana de hoy ha iniciado el operativo para descabezar la protesta indígena, matando a Santiago Manuig Valera y buscando amedrentar a Segundo Alberto Pizango y otros dirigentes.

Las repudiables acciones de Bagua ponen en evidencia la intención del gobierno de no derogar los decretos, aun a costa de la vida de ciudadanos, indígenas y policías. Consideramos que, viviendo en democracia, los conflictos deben ser resueltos por otros medios sin sacrificar la vida de quienes defienden sus tierras, bosques y aguas y el respeto a su identidad.

Las organizaciones que suscribimos pedimos:

- Que se establezca el alto al fuego y se detenga la violencia.

- Que el Congreso de la República asuma su responsabilidad y atienda inmediatamente la situación de los decretos legislativos cuestionados.

- Que la Defensoría del Pueblo culmine el estudio de los Decretos Legislativos cuestionados en el más breve plazo.

- Que las partes retomen el diálogo y se de solución a los temas de la agenda establecida.

Lima, 5 de junio de 2009

Instituto del Bien Común (IBC), Foro Ecológico, Red Muqui, Red de Propuesta y Acción, Fundación Ecuménica para el Desarrollo y la Paz (FEDEPAZ), Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL), Centro Amazónico de Antropológico y Aplicación Práctica (CAAAP), Grupo de trabajo Racimos de Ungurahui, Acción Solidaria para el Desarrollo (Cooperacción), Asociación Civil Labor, Frente por el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Frontera Norte del Perú, Centro Labor Pasco, Instituto Natura, Vicaría Pastoral Minera
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:07 PM
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27. SOBRE EL CASO DEL DIRIGENTE SANTIAGO MANUIN Y LA CRISIS EN LA AMAZONÍA
SANTIAGO MANUIN - AMAZONÍA

SOBRE EL CASO DEL DIRIGENTE SANTIAGO MANUIN Y LA CRISIS EN LA AMAZONÍA



Se me hace extraño comenzar este texto hablando de muerte cuando la Amazonía es el lugar más vivo que he conocido. Pero hoy es un día triste marcado por la muerte de nativos y policías en las revueltas indígenas que llevan casi 2 meses.

Hoy amanecí con las llamadas de amigos diciéndome que Santiago Manuin, el mayor dirigente indígena del Alto Marañón y amigo íntimo desde que llegué hace 15 años, había muerto por las balas de la policía, ahora sé que se debate entre la vida y la muerte.

Sabía que algún día eso podía ocurrir en alguien entregado a su pueblo en la defensa del territorio, en el combate contra los grupos terroristas y el narcotráfico, y en la oposición al ingreso de petroleras y mineras en su tierra; y no porque esté en contra del desarrollo, sino porque cree que éste va por el camino del respeto a la tierra y la naturaleza, y a la participación real de los milenarios habitantes de las selvas. Aunque lo sabía, uno nunca se acostumbra a la muerte.

El Alto Marañón es el territorio comprendido por los ríos Chiriaco, Cenepa, Marañón, Nieva y Santiago y en sus 30 mil km2 viven los pueblos Aguaruna y Huambisa, pertenecientes a la familia Jíbara. Pueblos guerreros, horizontales y organizados que han sabido mantener lo fundamental de su cultura.

Santiago fue el primer aguaruna que conocí y con el que más viví y aprendí en mis 7 años de vida en el Alto Marañón. Con él viajamos por todos los ríos, vivimos en sus comunidades, conocí sus mitos y hasta estuvimos en España buscando dinero para los proyectos que desarrollábamos en la selva. En España se reunió con la reina Sofía que salió “impresionada por la categoría humana de este hombre” y en España también hizo un diploma en derechos humanos en una universidad de los jesuitas.

La muerte duele pero más duele el engaño y la mentira. En la prensa leo que detrás de estas revueltas indígenas está Humala, el narcotráfico y el complot internacional. Y todo eso es falso. Da igual quién esté en el Gobierno porque los nativos se van a seguir levantando si ven sus tierras en riesgo. Y fueron Santiago y las organizaciones nativas de los ríos —soy testigo de ello—, quienes sacaron al MRTA del Alto Marañón y quienes limpiaron de cultivos de coca, porque creen en otro tipo de desarrollo y porque no querían que se repitiese la terrible experiencia de los Asháninkas con Sendero. Y el Gobierno no hizo nada. A pesar de ser una zona permanentemente olvidada por el Estado, pocas veces he visto tanto orgullo por ser peruanos.

Por eso también, el Gobierno no es valiente ni tiene visión de su país. El Gobierno no es capaz de darse cuenta que la gran riqueza del Perú es su diversidad: diversidad de climas, naturalezas, lenguas, pueblos e historias. Y en un país tan diverso como éste hacen falta estrategias diferentes para negociar, para entender los problemas de sierra, costa y selva y buscar soluciones entre todos a los mismos.

La Amazonía siempre ha sido el patio trasero de los gobiernos del Perú. Los peores índices en salud y educación se encuentran en la selva, pero me sorprendía siempre el estilo de los jíbaros que con un orgullo enormemente humano decían, “nosotros no pertenecemos a la extrema pobreza porque tenemos nuestra selva”. Los nativos saben que sólo se piensa en ellos cuando se trata de recursos de interés para otros: petróleo, maderas, gas o minerales. Y que todas las leyes y decretos emanados por un Congreso mediocre y de visión centralista jamás han considerado una participación real de los pobladores de la selva.

Me quedo con la vida que llena la selva y su gente. Me quedo con Santiago que siempre me decía ‘Kumu, nosotros hemos resistido al inca y al español y vamos a resistir lo que sea, porque esta tierra es nuestra’. No por exclusividad al otro sino por compromiso real con el Perú.
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:09 PM
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30. Aqui un comunicado en francés.... HALTE AU MASSACRE DES COMMUNAUTES INDIGENES DE L'AMAZONIE PERU ...


Aqui un comunicado en francés....

COMMUNIQUE FRANCE AMERIQUE LATINE


HALTE AU MASSACRE DES COMMUNAUTES INDIGENES DE L'AMAZONIE PERUVIENNE


Depuis 57 jours les populations indigènes de l'Amazonie péruvienne mènent une grève générale pacifique, en réaction à onze décrets pris par le gouvernement péruvien, favorables aux Traités de Libre Commerce et attentatoires à leurs droits et à l’environnement.


En réponse, le gouvernement d’Alan Garcia a lancé vendredi 5 juin à l’aube une attaque d’une violence incroyable sur les manifestants qui occupaient depuis 10 jours la route Belaunde Terri, dans l'endroit nommé la « Curva del Diablo », dans le département d'Amazonas, au nord du pays.


Selon les dernières informations dont nous disposons, cette attaque a causé la mort de trente deux personnes dont 25 indigènes et 7 policiers. La police et l'armée ont lancé depuis des hélicoptères des bombes lacrymogènes et ont tiré sur les manifestants, ces derniers se sont défendus.


Ce massacre s'est produit quelques heures après que le congrès péruvien ait pour une énième fois reporté le débat sur l'abrogation des décrets législatifs incriminés. Le gouvernement d’Alan Garcia refuse en effet d'entamer un dialogue réclamé par les communautés indigènes depuis le début de la crise.


Selon la presse un mandat d'arrêt à été lancée contre tous les dirigeants de l'Association Interethnique pour le Développement de l'Amazonie Péruvienne (AIDESEP), dont Alberto PIZANGO son président, que le gouvernement d'Alan Garcia accuse de comportements de délinquant.


Ce n'est pas la première fois que Alan Garcia se rend responsable d'un massacre sur des populations civiles, lors de son premier gouvernement il s’était illustré en 1986 par le massacre des prisonniers du « Fronton ».


France Amérique Latine condamne fermement ces crimes, et demande que toute la lumière soit faite sur la responsabilité du gouvernement d'Alain Garcia, commanditaire de cette intervention armée.


France Amérique Latine exige du gouvernement péruvien :


- l’arrêt immédiat de la persécution des dirigeants de l'AIDESEP,

- le retrait des décrets incriminés,

- la suspension de l’Etat d’urgence,

- vérité, justice et réparation pour les victimes


Au moment où l’Europe est train de négocier des accords commerciaux avec le Pérou, France Amérique Latine demande instamment aux responsables européens et au gouvernement français de condamner le gouvernement péruvien pour ses agissements.

France Amérique Latine

Paris, 6 juin 2009


Helia CACERES, responsable campaña
France Amérique Latine
projet@franceameriq uelatine. fr Tél : 06 01 96 82 83
www.franceameriquel atine.org
Nancy OCHOA
Asociacion Culturelle Lupuna
lupunaasociacion@ hotmail.fr Tél : 01 47 23 31 49
http://associationl upuna.blogspot. com/
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:13 PM
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31. Pronunciamiento de las Comunidades y Rondas Campesinas de Luya, Amaz
Pronunciamiento de las Comunidades y Rondas Campesinas de Luya, Amaz
Sun Jun 7, 2009

LAS COMUNIDADES Y RONDAS CAMPESINAS DE LA PROVINCIA DE LUYA, AMAZONAS, NOS UNIMOS A LA LUCHA DE NUESTROS HERMANOS INDIGENAS

Ante los graves hechos sucedidos en la zona de Bagua por la brutal represión emprendida por el Gobierno a través de las fuerzas especiales de la Policía Nacional y el Ejército que han producido la lamentable muerte de decenas de peruanos entre hermanos indígenas, campesinos, policías y pobladores de la zona , queremos expresar lo siguiente:

1.- La justa lucha de los hermanos indígenas responde a la vulneración sistemática de sus derechos que el gobierno de Alan García viene implementando como parte de la profundización de las políticas neoliberales que se concretaron con la promulgación de una serie de Decretos Legislativos nocivos para el país, en el marco de las facultades especiales brindadas por el Congreso de la Republica para la implementación del Tratado de Libre Comercio con los Estados Unidos.

2.- El gobierno ha demostrado su intransigencia y nulo deseo de dialogar toda vez que las comunidades indígenas vienen expresando su reclamo desde agosto del año pasado e iniciaron una protesta general hace casi dos meses sin ser atendidos realmente por el gobierno. Quedan claras las maniobras gubernamentales de dilatar el debate de los Decretos en el Congreso ya que estaban preparando el uso de la fuerza y no el dialogo para enfrentar la situación.

3.- Debemos dejar en claro que estos decretos no solo afectan a los pueblos amazónicos sino a todos los peruanos en cuanto entregan nuestros más preciados recursos para beneficio de unos pocos empresarios. Como dicen los propios representantes del gobierno, esos recursos son de todos los peruanos, y si piensan que 400 mil indígenas no pueden decidir sobre ellos, a pesar de encontrarse en sus ancestrales territorios. Menos derecho tienen unas cuantas autoridades corruptas en alianza con algunos grupos empresariales, para decidir sobre nuestros recursos naturales.


4.- Expresamos nuestro profundo rechazo y condena a la brutal represión del gobierno contra nuestros hermanos de Bagua, Uctubamba y Condorcanqui y responsabilizamos directamente al Presidente de la Republica, Alan García, al Primer Ministro, Yehude Simons y a la Ministra del Interior, Mercedes Cabanillas por las muertes de los hermanos indígenas, pobladores y policías. Exigimos el cese a la persecución de los dirigentes y hermanos indígenas y el acoso a la prensa local.

5.- Denunciamos la creciente expansión de las concesiones mineras en toda la Región de Amazonas desde la zona fronteriza de la Cordillera del Cóndor en territorios de los hermanos Awajun y Wampis y en muchos otros territorios de comunidades campesinas y zonas de importancia ecológica y cultural, incluso en las propias cercanías del Gran Complejo Arqueológico de Kuelap.

5.- Las Comunidades y Rondas Campesinas de la Provincia de Luya anunciamos que nos sumamos a la causa y lucha de nuestros hermanos indígenas, que debe ser la de todos los peruanos, hasta la derogatoria de los Decretos Legislativos cuestionados, que no solo vulneran nuestra propia Constitución Política, sino además los convenios internacionales, como el 169 de la OIT, que el Perú ha suscrito y tiene la obligación de cumplir.

Luya, Amazonas, 6 de Junio de 2009

FEDERACION DE COMUNIDADES Y RONDAS CAMPESINAS DE LA PROVINCIA DE LUYA

Pedro Edilver Vergaray Arista
Presidente

Geromias Chauca Valqui
Vicepresidente

Carolina Valerin Mendoza
Secretaria de Actas

Nilo López Zuta
Secretario de Organizacion


FOTOS DE LOS SUCESOS
http://catapa. be/en/north- peru-killings
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 01:38 PM
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3. Link to pictures here (WARNING)
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 01:48 PM
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5. Indigenous people are at the bottom of the class system throughout
South America except maybe in Venezuela where Chavez a native himself is trying to change things. They are tolerated for cheap labor but not considered on an equal status with the ruling and merchant classes.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 02:07 PM
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10. Apparently Garcia thinks he can kill these people with impunity. n/t
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Rebubula Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 02:20 PM
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11. Chavez...
...maybe I am clueless, but it seems as though you are referring to Evo Morales. He is the one elevating the indigenous peoples to higher levels.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 02:30 PM
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14. Both are working these issues. Iirc, the was a huge conference in Ven
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 02:57 PM
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24. Morales too, but Bolivia is mostly a nation of indigenous people so the
divides aren't as sharply visible like they are in other nations.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:03 PM
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26. The white supremacists in Santa Cruz are active and dangerous.
There was another plot on Evo's life uncovered just last month, with active US support from USAID and a CIA connected front group posing as a human rights org. Four of the planners fled and are fugitives in the United States at the moment.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:30 PM
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34. I didn't know that crowd was moving down there.
However if Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid found Bolivia desirable for their life of crime, it makes sense. When I lived in South America on the other side of the Andes from Bolivia, revolutions were happening almost every six months making the country very unstable politically. I suppose something of that is left over from those days.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:34 PM
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37. They have organized militias to kill indigenous people and they are determined
Edited on Mon Jun-08-09 03:34 PM by EFerrari
to secede. It's a very dangerous situation in Santa Cruz. These people have ties to neo-Nazi groups as well as paleo-Nazi groups. The terrorist cell that was busted had muscle mercenaries from Europe and the evidence is clear that the effort was put on by the white leaders of the department.

They are serious and their impunity was supported by BushCo.
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 02:28 PM
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13. You're right. It appears some people are unaware of his heritage.
Maybe they forget it in their rush to rage against his progressive intentions for which the people elected him.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 02:25 PM
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12. Peruvian massacre aimed at opening Amazon to transnationals
The roadblock was part of a 56-day protest involving tens of thousands of indigenous inhabitants of the Amazon jungle territory (about half of the Peruvian land mass). The action was part of a struggle waged by the people who live in the region to overturn new laws designed to open up communal lands for oil exploration, logging, mining and large-scale farming.

European, American and Brazilian companies are bidding tens of billions of dollars for rights to drill for oil, construct a hydroelectric plant and exploit the vast mineral and timber resources of the Amazon jungle.

The death toll resulting from this confrontation is the highest in Peru since the 20-year-long war against the Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path ended more than 10 years ago. The repressive actions by the police and armed forces will only intensify the already substantial mass opposition to President Garcia, whose approval ratings have fallen to barely 30 percent. The killings have revived memories of Garcia’s ordering the massacre of hundreds Shining Path detainees held in the El Frontón, Lurigancho and Los Molinos prisons during his first presidency (1985-1990).

Among the dead in the assault that began on Friday were at least three children. Doctor Edgar Rodas of the Good Samaritan Hospital in Bagua Grande called the police action “barbaric,” reporting that children were also among the wounded—including a four-year-old girl. He said that the medical facility had been overwhelmed by the number of casualties.

The reports by the BBC and New York Times tend to rely on official government accounts, which blame the indigenous associations’ leaders, even suggesting that are being instigated by the left-nationalist governments of Venezuela and Bolivia. In a statement Sunday, Garcia spoke of an international “conspiracy” against Peru, and accused the massacred demonstrators of “subversive aggression and terrorism.”

The Peruvian daily La Republica provides a very different account of how events unfolded:

“At six in the morning, three MI-17 helicopters from the Special Forces of the National Police flew over the area firing tear gases at the protesters. Simultaneously, a large police contingent armed with AKM rifles attacked by land.

“In a few minutes, the road was filled with dead bodies and the wounded, whom their brothers were attempting to revive in the middle of the police attack.

“As soon as the news of the massacre reached Bagua-Chica, the nearest city, the population rebelled. Outraged groups set fire to the APRA (the ruling party) headquarters and buildings belonging to the government agencies, Cofopri, Pronaa, and to the legislature.

“The population of Bagua-Grande mobilized to defend the victims, but was stopped by heavily armed police contingents. The police did not allow them to give water and first aid to the victims.”

The presence of a government representative only increased the anger of the local population. “From helicopters,” the La Republica report continues, “the police fired tear gas and live ammunition. The population panicked and started running, taking with them some of the wounded.”

By midday, the road was re-opened to traffic. The protests continued in Bagua-Grande and Bagua-Chica, where the population fought back throwing stones. On Sunday, the Peruvian government had imposed a 3 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, enforced by the army.

Among the dead were leaders of the Awajun indigenous community, Felipe Sabio and Mateo Inti. Initially, the well-known leader of the Aguarunas, Santiago Manuin Valera, who had received the Spanish Reina Sofia prize for his defense of nature and human rights, was also reported killed, sparking renewed anger among the local population. It was later reported, however, that Manuin Valera had survived surgery after being shot at least eight times, but remained in critical condition.

Zebelio Kayap, president of the Frontier Communities of the Cenepa Organization (Odecofroc in Spanish), told La Republica, “Some of the natives’ bodies may have been burned by the police and thrown into the Marañón River.” Eyewitnesses reported seeing bodies placed in black plastic bags, loaded into helicopters and dumped in the river in an effort to cover up the scale of the massacre.

The indigenous people began their protest in early April. They claim their ancestral rights to the jungle were not considered in the proposed deals with major capitalist interests and that the government did not consult them. In his typical arrogance, President Garcia responded by saying that he did not have to consult anyone because, according to the Constitution, the state owns all the mineral and hydrocarbon wealth of Peru.

In a statement to the press at the end of last month, Garcia denounced the opposition among the indigenous people of the Amazon to opening up their lands for exploitation as “retrograde, backward and wrong,” adding that those who were protesting “haven’t even read” the legislation.

“What is happening is that there are people who hate investment, who don’t like capitalists because they think that it is always North American Yankees who come, but there are Korean, Arab, Japanese capitalists who are coming to look for petroleum so that Peru will cease being an importer of petroleum,” Garcia said.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jun2009/peru-j08.shtml
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 02:31 PM
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15. Yes! Good catch. BBC and NYTs el al print the government fax.
Amy and other independent outlets have very different accounts.
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 02:34 PM
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16. Excellent report. There's a photo which confirms the info. on the indigenous
people's weapons in the link posted by EFerrari, showing a stunned young man holding rocks in his hands. There were some others with wooden spears. Not too useful against the BOMBS, and the machine guns, apparently.

This is unbelievable.

According to Alan Garcia, if you don't jump when he says jump, you are going to get killed. Your rights don't even enter into any of this. All that matters is business and money, nothing else.
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 02:46 PM
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18. Actually, 70% of Peru is Selva (Amazonian jungle). I set up some of the Native Reserves
back in 1971. Back then, there were intrusion problems.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 04:36 PM
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52. Why do I get the feeling that Garcia got his economic education in Chicago? n/t
Edited on Mon Jun-08-09 04:52 PM by ColbertWatcher
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David__77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 02:46 PM
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20. Garcia is a fascist.
I hope he is removed.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 02:48 PM
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21. Amazon Watch has an action page to write to Garcia -- link in OP.
No reg, pre-written letter if needed.
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troubledamerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-09-09 03:27 AM
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66. Yes, Garcia is fascist. Proudly so, just like Alvaro Uribe.
And like all fascists, they have Death Squads & mass graves.

Funny, but the Leftist boogeymen like Chavez don't have Death Squads OR mass graves.
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-09-09 11:56 AM
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71. A real problem in Peru is drug corruption, just like Colombia.
One of the reasons leftist movement are countered with death squads is to protect drug lords.

During the Sandinista era in Nicaragua, it was even out-of-fashion to get drunk.
Leftist social movements alter the status quo, and in Peru and Bolivia the status quo includes making millions off coca production.
The global illicit drug industry needs to maintain political control of a few small countries for operations,
like banking in Panama, airstrips in Honduras and Costa Rica. This is why they tried to overthrow Nicaragua, the COCAINE!

Why did Bush invaded Panama? Ask Manuel Noriega, and he will tell you everything.
Oooops, noone can talk to Manuel anymore. Geee, I wonder why?
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 02:50 PM
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22. Desde helicópteros y desde tierra, utilizando fuego real y gases lacrimógenos ....


Desde helicópteros y desde tierra, utilizando fuego real y gases lacrimógenos, la operación de desalojo duró prácticamente toda la mañana, según señalaron varias fuentes.

Posteriormente, los desórdenes se extendieron por la ciudad de Bagua, donde los manifestantes prendieron fuego a varias oficinas públicas y del partido Aprista (gobernante), y las movilizaciones continuaron esta tarde, en medio de disparos al aire y bombas lacrimógenas, según fuentes del hospital de la ciudad.

El presidente de la Junta de Fiscales superiores de la región Amazonas, Oswaldo Bautista, dijo que la Fiscalía aún no ha establecido una cifra definitiva de muertos, porque están procediendo todavía al levantamiento de cadáveres en tres puntos distintos: Bagua Grande, Bagua Chica y la misma carretera.

La enfermera Teresa Romero, del hospital de Bagua Chica, declaró al Canal N que tienen 40 heridos "todos de bala, han sido balas al cuerpo, a la cabeza, al abdomen, porque ellos (los policías) han querido matar a los hermanos", al tiempo que pidió ayuda, porque el hospital se encuentra "en un caos total, sin camas, con los heridos por el suelo".

Además, los bloqueos de carreteras y las tomas de ductos obligaron a suspender o restringir el bombeo de gas y petróleo, cuyos principales yacimientos están precisamente en las zonas en conflicto.

Por otro lado, el canciller peruano, José Antonio García Belaúnde, invitó a reanudar el diálogo a los nativos amazónicos, pero advirtió que el Gobierno no derogará los polémicos decretos que dieron origen a las manifestaciones.

El ministro se comunicó con Efe para lanzar el siguiente mensaje: "Sentémonos a dialogar, hay una mesa establecida con amplísima representación indígena, queremos dialogar, pero no aceptamos una huelga en la que se atenta contra la Policía", dijo.

Además, el viceministro de Justicia, Erasmo Reyna, anunció que se denunciará a todos los responsables por las muertes y la destrucción en Bagua, porque "estos no son actos de protesta, sino de destrucción, porque hubo muertos, entre ellos policías y civiles inocentes".

Los nativos protestan desde el 9 de abril contra una decena de decretos legislativos, porque consideran que atentan contra su derecho a ser consultados sobre sus tierras, contenido en el Convenio 169 de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) sobre Pueblos Indígenas y Tribales, así como la declaración de la ONU sobre Pueblos Indígenas, ambos suscritos por Perú.

En opinión de los indígenas, se trata de decretos legislativos que vulneran sus derechos, entre ellos el 1090, Ley Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre, y cuyo debate en el Congreso se ha postergado en varias ocasiones, lo que ha exasperado a los nativos.

El presidente Alan García dijo que tras las protestas hay intereses ocultos para impedir el desarrollo del país: "Eso solo le interesa a potencias petroleras que quieren mantener a otros países como compradores de petróleo y no quieren que desarrollen sus riquezas".

Y acusó al líder indígena Alberto Pizango de "haber caído en un nivel delicuencial".
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:03 PM
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25. Peruvian police fire on unarmed indigenous tribes' oil and gas protest
Edited on Mon Jun-08-09 03:04 PM by Judi Lynn
Peruvian police fire on unarmed indigenous tribes' oil and gas protest
Both sides report at least 30 deaths and many more
Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent, and agencies guardian.co.uk,
Friday 5 June 2009 23.20 BST

Indigenous tribes who are protesting about oil and gas projects in the Amazon clashed with Peruvian security forces on Friday, leaving dozens dead and injured.

The bloodshed broke out before dawn when police tried to lift a road blockade by thousands of Awajun and Wambis Indians near Bagua in the remote province of Utcubamba, 870 miles north of the capital Lima.

Both sides reported at least 30 deaths - including nine police - and dozens wounded. Each blamed the other for the mayhem.

Police in helicopters fired live rounds at peaceful protestors and dropped tear gas canisters, killing 22 protestors, indigenous leader Alberto Pizango told reporters in the capital Lima. "I hold the government of President Alan García responsible for ordering this genocide."

The government said police were attempting to retake control of a lawless area when they came under attack from tribes who were armed with guns and set fire to government buildings.

The advocacy group Amazon Watch backed the indigenous version of events. "Eyewitnesses report that police attacked from both sides firing real bullets into the crowd as people fled into the hills. As the unarmed demonstrators were killed and injured, some wrestled the police and took away their guns and fought back in self-defence, resulting in the deaths of several police officers."

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/05/amazon-tribes-police-protest-deaths
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:08 PM
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28. The murder of indigenous peoples continues in the Americas. Please use this link
to talk back to the Garcia government. It's a two minute action:

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

:kick:

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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:09 PM
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29. k+r
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:34 PM
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38. 'Many missing' after Peru riots
Page last updated at 15:10 GMT, Monday, 8 June 2009 16:10 UK
'Many missing' after Peru riots

Dozens of people are missing feared dead in northern Peru after some of the country's worst violence for 10 years.

At least 30 indigenous protesters and 24 police officers are reported to have been killed in two days of clashes.

Local people say a military curfew is preventing them from hunting for those still unaccounted for. Witnesses report seeing bodies dumped in a river.

President Alan Garcia has accused the protesters of "barbarity" and said "foreign forces" were also involved.

The violence erupted on Friday after 2,500 Indians - many of them carrying spears and machetes - protested over government plans to drill for gas and oil in what they consider their ancestral lands

~snip~
"The police were shooting to kill, but that's not all, because they hid the dead," one man told the BBC.

"They took them to the ravine and threw them from the helicopter in plastic bags. There are also dead on the river banks. Up there beyond the hill, there are more, as if it were a common grave."

President Garcia has roundly rejected the allegations. He accused the protesters of disarming, tying up and slitting the throats of the officers taken hostage.

President Garcia has blamed foreign forces - widely understood to mean Bolivia and Venezuela - for inciting the unrest, saying on Sunday they did not want Peru to use its "natural resources for the good, growth and quality of life of our people".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8088350.stm

http://external.cache.el-mundo.net.nyud.net:8090/elmundo/imagenes/2006/04/28/1146189892_g_0.jpg

http://photos.upi.com.nyud.net:8090/topics-Alan-Garcia/45285066c2fbb1caea1ef2681dd9fc18/Alan-Garcia_1.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090/_7Se7iswAanA/SOvS9iPj_OI/AAAAAAAADGY/Nertzguv3QA/s320/alan_garcia_sssssh2.jpg

Peru's President Alan Garcia
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:38 PM
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39. Butcher. We may never know the real numbers, either.
I sincerely hope that Americans of good will mobilize against this slaughter.
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:42 PM
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41. Undoubtedly they would, once they knew about it, and had a clear idea of what has happened.
That's the reason our own corporate media has been used to keep us all completely unaware of corporate exploitation and abuse of humanity in Latin America until LONG after it has happened.
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:43 PM
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42. This page contains all the pictures
Edited on Mon Jun-08-09 03:44 PM by L. Coyote
Pictures Peru killings
Sat, 06/06/2009 - 16:58 — johanvdw - http://catapa.be/en/north-peru-killings
This page contains all the pictures taken by our voluteers in Peru of the conflict between the Peruvian government and the Amazon people. Some pictures are shocking.



















MANY MORE .......... http://catapa.be/en/north-peru-killings
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Seldona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:50 PM
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43. Amazingly, I was the 5th rec.
Kicked so more people can see the horror and try to do SOMETHING about it, though it is to late for far to many.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:53 PM
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46. Thank you, Seldona.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:53 PM
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45. Up to 100 dead in Amazon clashes: activist
Up to 100 Amazon natives have been killed after Friday's military crackdown on protesters in Peru and the situation is expected to worsen, says a Canadian Indigenous rights activist.

Twenty-two-year-old Ben Powless is working alongside Peru's national organisation of Amazon Indigenous people, AIDESEP, and fears more lives will be lost, with the government now labelling protesters as "terrorists".

Many Peruvians - not just Indigenous - are upset by plans to open land in Peru's Amazon region to oil, gas and mineral exploration, even though much of the land is officially protected.

The Government has recently signed a number of free trade agreements with the United States and Canada, seeking to change domestic laws and encourage foreign investment in the Amazon.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5636597

And please remember, the counting always lags behind the killing.

:kick:
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 03:55 PM
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47. You're so right. The government's numbers NEVER correspond to the numbers the people report,
when their loved ones disappear during the attacks and never return, or are shoved into mass graves.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 04:07 PM
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49. 2 pics ...




Both these images show some of the people who made up the human roadblock and were taken Friday of last week (June 5).

They were trying to block oil, gas and mining corporations from their land.

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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 04:16 PM
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50. What kind of person would EVER allow himself to harm these people?
Edited on Mon Jun-08-09 04:16 PM by Judi Lynn
Greed has brought out the wild beast in their President.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 04:53 PM
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54. The problem is that they don't see people; they only see money. n/t
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 04:17 PM
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51. And our government wrote the laws for Garcia that gave him the power
to take indigenous land and rights as he set about implementing the "free trade" agreement behind this atrocity. The Bush Government's hand is all over this latest assault -- as are the hands of dead enders in the State Department. Garcia would not have moved ahead with this without notifying someone there first.

The young man in this photograph is lucky. He found his father's corpse.



Please let's speak up and stop Garcia's slaughter of indigenous people.

:kick:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 04:38 PM
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53. The Official Story is that this was a fair and balanced killing:
LIMA, Peru (CNN) -- Peruvian officials ordered the arrest Monday of 36 suspects in connection with clashes between indigenous citizens and the national police that left more than 30 people dead since Friday, the state-run news agency Andina reported.
Alberto Pizango, a leader of the protesters, says his followers did not kill police officers.

The violence started when police attacked a roadblock near the city of Bagua, in the Amazonian part of northwestern Peru. About 2,500 indigenous people had blocked the main road to protest measures the government has taken to sell land to energy companies. Indians native to the area say that is their land even though they don't have formal property titles.

The government has not released exact figures, but according to Amnesty International more than 30 demonstrators and 22 police have been killed since Friday. The Web site for RPP radio and El Comercio newspaper said at least 33 people died.

More than 50 people have been injured, various reports said.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/08/peru.violence/index.html?section=cnn_latest

That's patently ridiculous. The people had no automatic weapons, tear gas or helicopters.
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 04:59 PM
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55. Unbelievable remark from their pResident Garcia:
Peruvian President Alan Garcia vowed to put down the demonstrations, some of which had been going on for a couple of months.

"We will not give in to violence or blackmail," he said in a speech Sunday.
These people are staying on the land their tribes have lived on forever, they are not coming into the capital and whaling on Garcia.

Why he's claiming they are violent, or trying to blackmail him defies understanding. It's dramatic, but it's not truthful.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk.nyud.net:8090/news/archives/peru2.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com.nyud.net:8090/3043/2647277911_9f6f3116e2.jpg

Dangerous drama queen Alan Garcia
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 05:02 PM
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56. My email to him was: Stop killing indians, you lying coward.
Do you think that was direct enough?

This whole thing makes me wonder who the Bush leftovers are in our government that are green-lighting this action. :shrug:
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 05:29 PM
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57. Undoubtedly there's a ton of them left, far more than could ever be useful for peace.
Edited on Mon Jun-08-09 05:31 PM by Judi Lynn
They're probably thrilled about this breakthrough. I guess they're all over the place, in both State and Defense, people like Bolton, for chrissakes, and even worse. Hillary is on their frequency too, unfortunately.

Why bother spending money on relocating these people if you can simply kill them and spend the money on companies who will kick back some of it to you? Really!

Your e-mail is direct, all right! Just what the doctor ordered. If only he could get a boatload of them.
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troubledamerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-09-09 03:30 AM
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67. Fascists always accuse others first before they do it themselves. Remember "fuzzy math"?
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-09-09 03:45 AM
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68. Garcia, with the Moonie Times, is claiming Hugo Chavez is causing
these demonstrations.

He's as insane as our domestic Cons and would fit right in on Morning Ho.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 06:09 PM
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58. Narco News report here (warning: graphic images of violence):
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 07:21 PM
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59. Kick
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 07:29 PM
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60. K&R. Will be back later tonight to learn more. Thanks. n/t
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 07:39 PM
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61. Thank you. If enough people email or call, we might be able to put brakes on this. n/t
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 08:33 PM
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62. Kicking to read later tonight......
:kick: :kick: :kick:
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scarletwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 09:33 PM
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63. k&r -- thank you for shining the light on this. So much evil...
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 11:57 PM
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64. Done.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-09-09 02:23 AM
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65. Indian leader Pizango seeks asylum @ Nicaraguan Embassy.
Edited on Tue Jun-09-09 02:24 AM by EFerrari
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-09-09 05:50 AM
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69. Forests Of Peruvian Amazon Stained With Blood
Forests Of Peruvian Amazon Stained With Blood
Tuesday, 9 June 2009, 2:31 pm
Press Release: COICA
Green Forests Of Peruvian Amazon Stained With Blood

Bonn, June 8, 2009

The Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin - COICA - is outraged over the recent events in the cities of Jaen, Bagua Chica, and Bagua Grande in Peru.

We express our profound rejection of the repressive methods used by the Peruvian Government, which are criminal and undemocratic. Since last May, the government has declared a state of emergency and repression in several districts of the Amazon in response to a strike called by Peruvian indigenous organizations demanding the legal and legitimate respect of their territories, and respect of their rights, which have been violated by a dozen of legislative decrees that promote the entry of multinational companies into Amazonian lands to the detriment of local indigenous communities.

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We condemn the killing of more than 30 indigenous brothers (Awajun and Wampis) and dozens wounded, including farmers, mestizos, and whites attacked for their solidarity with indigenous peoples.

We accuse the government of Alan García of political manipulation and authoritarianism given the Constitution Committee of Peru's National Congress's declaration that the legislative package which provoked the strike-signifying environmental, labor, intellectual property, and biodiversity management reforms--is unconstitutional.

We accuse the government of Alan García of failing to find a timely and legitimate solution to AIDESEP's proposal to repeal the ordinance 1090 and other decrees ((to facilitate the Free Trade FTA between Perú and United States), which could have prevented this massacre.

We regret and condemn the reactions of the Peruvian government, its Ministers, and the media, for blaming the disgrace in Bagua on Peruvian indigenous bothers, and their concealment of information regarding indigenous peoples killed (by hiding their bodies). This only shows that the government of Alan García feared being accused of crimes and human rights violations.

We appeal to the independent press and human rights institutions to investigate, monitor and report on actual events actually taking place in Peru, as opposed to relying on information in the national press manipulated by the government.

We urge the international community create a commission to investigate and review the facts, and urge the Government of Peru to implement the ILO Convention 169 and other international treaties on indigenous peoples and human rights.

We demand that the government of Alan García be tried before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and respond to the international community about the massacre that occurred in the Amazon territories, where the armed forces confronted unarmed indigenous peoples.

We call on the indigenous movement of the world to show solidarity with our Peruvian brothers and to demand that the government of Alan García immediately stop this repression and murder wave in the Peruvian Amazon.

We urge the whole world to recognize that the environment is not only “biodiversity” but also the people that co-exist with biodiversity. Therefore, it is very painful for us that the celebration of World Environment Day, June 5, has been stained with the blood of our brothers, who were the keepers of the land in their struggle for environmental protection.

We emphasize our position as peaceful Amazonian indigenous peoples, although we will respond courageously in defense of our rights, our lives and the environment.

For the respect of life and integrity of the people! For the protection of our Amazon! For a common front in support of indigenous peoples!

COICA - Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0906/S00068.htm
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-09-09 06:47 AM
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70. genocide... k&r
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-09-09 12:07 PM
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72. VIDEO: Peruvian Police Accused of Massacring Indigenous Protesters in Amazon Jungle
Edited on Tue Jun-09-09 12:10 PM by L. Coyote
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/6/8/peruvian_police_accused_of_massacring_indigenous

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.

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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 08:15 AM
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73. Disputed Peru land laws suspended
Disputed Peru land laws suspended
Wednesday, 10 June 2009 22:20 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8094304.stm


Peru's parliament has suspended two land laws that triggered deadly clashes between police and protesters.

At least 54 people, including some police officers, died after violence erupted on Friday between security forces and indigenous protesters.

The laws are designed to regulate investment in the Amazon, but indigenous groups say they will lose control of their natural resources.

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