Amazonian Indigenous Protest Provokes Peruvian Government Reprisals

By Richard Chasey, posted on May 28th, 2009 in Politics

Originally Published by Environment News Service

AIDESEP – an umbrella group that represents most of Peru’s Amazonian indigenous ethnicities – are demanding the repeal of nine legislative decrees they claim will facilitate the deforestation and privatization of their traditional lands and natural resources.

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