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Peru’s War on the Indigenous

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Posted on Jun 10, 2009
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The Peruvian rain forest is the largest outside of Brazil.

In clashes between native groups armed with spears and development interests packing guns, Peru has seen at least 50 people die and hundreds go missing after President Alan Garcia initiated a campaign to open the rain forest to foreign investors.

Indigenous groups have been waging a protest campaign since April against government plans to open up Amazonian communal jungle lands for oil exploration, logging, mining and large-scale farming.

BBC:

Human rights lawyers have accused Peru’s government of a cover-up, after clashes between police and indigenous protesters killed at least 50 people.

The lawyers say hundreds more may be missing, amid rumours that the police have hidden bodies. But they say rights groups cannot get in to investigate.

The government denies the claims and says police were the victims.

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By Peter, June 11, 2009 at 2:53 pm Link to this comment
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The Peruvian Congress just suspended the two decrees that the protests were over. This may be a positive first step…

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By PatrickHenry, June 11, 2009 at 2:06 pm Link to this comment

By Inherit The Wind, June 11 at 12:03 pm #

Yeah, everything bad it the world is the fault of us dirty Jews, right PH?

You make ethnic cracks like this and then claim you are not anti-semitic.  What you are is a hypocrite.

And an anti-semite.

So much for your ritual rant.  You really ought to go easier on yourself.

Since when is drawing a parallel between how Israel justifies illegal settlements with “natural growth” impacting the indigenous people to how another “peaceful society” encroaches on and impacts their indigenous people.

Catch up on your meds.

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By Lester Shepherd, June 11, 2009 at 10:39 am Link to this comment
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So, Inherit, you are jewish and call everyone anti-semite.  Is the State of Israel a terrorist one?  You bet it is and that statement isn’t anti-semitic.  It is the truth.  Ask Chomsky and Zinn dumbo.

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By Jim Yell, June 11, 2009 at 8:00 am Link to this comment
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The problem is a large group is abused by the government, which leaves them feeling surprisingly abused. Developers want the land that doesn’t belong to them and they pay the government to allow them to steal it. The people who have lived there for centuries fight back,but haven’t adequate weapons and don’t fight as a united group. The corporations steal the government, steal the land, and distroy as much as they build. Welcome to the future.

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By Inherit The Wind, June 11, 2009 at 5:03 am Link to this comment

PatrickHenry, June 10 at 6:50 pm #

What do the Israelis call it? natural growth.
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Yeah, everything bad it the world is the fault of us dirty Jews, right PH?

You make ethnic cracks like this and then claim you are not anti-semitic.  What you are is a hypocrite.

And an anti-semite.

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By PatrickHenry, June 10, 2009 at 3:50 pm Link to this comment

What do the Israelis call it? natural growth.

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By Yeah David, June 10, 2009 at 1:21 pm Link to this comment

It’s a shame this is still continuing.  It’s the strategy used throughout the invasion of the New World, and a story of destruction of cultures and death of the people repeated again and again.  Aztecs, Mayans, Easter Islanders, American Indians, Eskimos, and all indigenous tribes.  It’s a shame because they have so much wisdom, medicine, methods, and techniques to offer our bankrupt society.

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By johannes, June 10, 2009 at 12:51 pm Link to this comment

Every time you reed things like this, you feel so hopeless and desperate, its going on all the time, we are not happy before the whole lot is in the drain, and lost for ever.

Salutations

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By ardee, June 10, 2009 at 12:30 pm Link to this comment

I wish these folks would learn from American history and use blankets from smallpox victims like we did.

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By samosamo, June 10, 2009 at 11:13 am Link to this comment

Seems the insanity of 6.8 billion people on this planet still needs a lot more clarification by wiping out more indigenous peoples and stripping of the land, that has more to do with the warming of the climate change we are witnessing than the stupid greedy people care to think about, because they want their billions of dollars at everyone else’s expense and misery.

And this happening just as I naively thought that south american countries learned from the trashing of their natural resources back in the 70s when milton ‘turd fuck’ friedman’s economics came to town.

There may not be any stronger message than this that the current political, economic, religious, cultural, educational, environmental and cultural systems around are so corrupted and infected with desperate crooks as to be not just worthless but condoning of such a course of action.

““President Alan Garcia initiated a campaign to open the rain forest to foreign investors.”“
This guy needs rendition and made to disappear because his little ‘quid quo pro’ action to open the rain forest to these investors will, in a not so long run time at all, be affecting the rest of the people of the world by tampering with the climate, not to mention the genocide of a the indigenous people who are a far greater and nobler people that garcia and his investors ever will be.

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By Lester Shepherd, June 10, 2009 at 10:35 am Link to this comment
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Another example of disaster capitalism.  Steal the resources, kill the population, polute the hell out of everything around the area , build some outrageous mansions to show off in, and move on the the next project.  Bastards.

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