24 Feb Indigenous groups protest massacre report: Demonstrators demand protection for their communities (Latin American Press)
Thousands of Peruvian indigenous protesters marched in several Amazon cities on Feb. 22 against a government-ordered report on deadly clashes between native community members and police that killed more than 30 people last June. The day before the march, President Alan García authorized the armed forces to support the police in the region “to protect the population from security threats.” In a statement, the Inter-ethnic Association of Development of the Peruvian Jungle, Peru’s main Amazon indigenous organization known as AIDESEP, railed against the government for calling up the military as “the indigenous peoples have shown that they are not violent and marched in the streets peacefully” against a report written by a government-appointed commission… go to article