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34 to 60 people were killed and many more where injured and some activist have gone missing after protests turned to clashes between Indigenous Indians of the Amazon and police in Bagua north of Peru got violent. The protests came about after the Peruvian government made changes to land laws threw there free trade agreement with the USA to allow corporations to log, drill for oil and dam the river. If the works went ahead it would have been the end of for the many indigenous group’s culture and living standards.