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Raisethefist.com: THE PEOPLE OF PERU NEED YOUR HELP!
THE PEOPLE OF PERU NEED YOUR HELP!
by peru Wed Jun 10 03:13:01 CDT 2009
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UPDATE
Recent reports indicate as many as 84 people killed and 150 arrested in clashes stemming from an early morning violent raid by police on unarmed protesters on June 5. Police are reported to be burning the bodies of the dead and dumping them into the river.
Astonishingly — but not surprisingly — the government is accusing the protesters of using tactics reminiscent of the 1980s internal conflict. Deploying racist imagery painting indigenous protesters as spear-wielding savages, President Alan Garcia has vowed a tough “response.”
Following the early-morning massacre, protesters took 38 police hostage at a pumping station for the national oil company, PetroPeru. A police raid to free the officers resulted in the deaths of nine of them. An Argentinian oil company, Pluspetrol, has halted oil pumping in one unit and will soon halt pumping in another due to the unrest.
The government has since issued an arrest warrant for indigenous leader Alberto Pizango (who was elected to represent the indigenous coalition by the leaders of 1,200 communities), charging him with “sedition.” Pizango has gone into hiding.
Please take action and urge the Peruvian government to halt the violence and repeal the controversial free trade laws that would open up indigenous land in the Amazon to increased development. Contact the US government and international agencies as well, and encourage them to place pressure on Peru. The Peruvian government is in a serious position of weakness right now and trying to cover it up with violence, and this is one of those rare cases where international pressure could deal a major setback to infrastructure expansion plans.
Read the full Root Force action alert on this issue here.
***PLEASE FORWARD THIS ALERT***
Following Peruvian President Alan Garcia’s order to begin clearing, by force, the protests and blockades that have paralyzed the country’s Amazon region for nearly two months, police launched a violent raid early this morning on unarmed protesters at a roadblock outside of Bagua.
The raid began at 2am while protesters were still sleeping, and began in earnest at 5 am with the firing of live ammunition and the dropping of teargas from helicopters. Protesters launched a counterattack, seizing guns from the police officers and returning fire. As of this posting, 28 indigenous civilians and 10 police officers are reported dead.
Police and government officials are falsely claiming that police acted in self defense and that the protesters were armed, violent and terrorists.
Indigenous people have been mobilized throughout the Amazon since April 9, demanding the repeal of 10 laws that would open up their territories to increasing mineral, oil, gas and timber exploitation. Two of the laws have been declared unconstitutional by a congressional panel, but Garcia’s APRA party continues to block the Congress from repealing them.
The Interethnic Development Association of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESP), the coordinator of the mobilization that represents 1,200 indigenous communities, has called for a national strike beginning June 11.
International solidarity is also requested, from letters of protest to the Peruvian government to urgent calls for the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations for Indigenous Peoples, Amnesty International, Survival International, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the International Labor Organization [ILO Convention 169]) to immediately dispatch international observers to the region.
http://www.rootforce.org/2009/06/05/peruvian-police-murder-indigenous-protesters-take-action/
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