ALERT: Massacre in Peru Police shooting Amazon Indigenous civilians - more than 60 people dead (Different media sources had declared that the numbers of people killed are from 60 to 300 people, but is certain that there are dissapeared indigenous people )
http://peruanista.blogspot.com/2009/06/alerta-masacre-en-peru-la-policia.html
PLEASE TAKE ACTION!
Join the demo/protest this Thursday 11, 12:30pm,at GPO in Melbourne, City - Australia
Check video here http://latinamericansolidaritynetwork.org , some part of the massive indigenous demostrations in Peru from yesterday
send you concerns and protest to:
Email the President of the Congress of Peru Javier Velásquez-Quesquén: jvelasquezq@congreso.gob.pe
and Peru Embassy in Australia embassy@embaperu.org.au
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 60 people have died
Indigenous peoples in Peru are in strike for the last 52 days protesting against free trade policies that would allow multinationals to take over their territories. This attack occurred around 5:00 AM this morning, a day after the Congress of Peru decided not to debate one of the most important decrees that allow the sale of Indigenous land. The number of casualities is 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.
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.
among the deads is a local Indigenous leader who organized the protest. Santiago Manuig Valera is an Awajun-Wampis man and his remains are not yet recovered, as the Police are preventing civilians from doing so.
The director of Policía Nacional del Perú (PNP), José Sánchez said the attacks were a response of violence started by the Indigenous protesters.
Peru’s president Alan Garcia is on national TV right now and has accused the Indigenous leaders of the violence “They want to play a revolution game,” and later on he added that “brave Police forces have fallen in defense of the nation,” and said he might send the military this is just beginning. Peru minister Mauricio Mulder calls indigenous protesters "terrorists". Primer Minister Jose Garcia Belaunde has denied that there were not previous consultations with Indigenous peoples, which is a lie.
Amazonian Indigenous leader Alberto Pizango, of AIDESEP said the government has committed genocide and that they will continue their fight and will rally in cities of Peru and around the world next Thursday June 11th.
Civilians in Bagua are reporting that “this is a genocidal attack, there is violence everywhere” as the violence continues right now. Enlace Nacional has also news.
PLEASE TAKE ACTION
Demand an immediate end of violence!. Please send emails to Alan Garcia, in Spanish here.
Email the President of the Congress of Peru Javier Velásquez-Quesquén:
jvelasquezq@congreso.gob.pe
and Peru Embassy in Australia embassy@embaperu.org.au
Solidarity Action for Amazonia Indigenous peoples in Perú
Thursday June 11, 12:30pm
GPO City
Corner of Bourke and Elizabeth streets
Melbourne