Two loggers shot dead with arrows in clash with Indigenous group in Peruvian Amazon
Source: The Guardian
Two loggers shot dead with arrows in clash with Indigenous group in Peruvian Amazon
Two more people missing and one injured after attack by ‘uncontacted’ Mashco Piro in rainforest
Dan Collyns in Lima
Wed 4 Sep 2024 12.26 BST
Last modified on Wed 4 Sep 2024 12.45 BST
At least two loggers have been shot dead with arrows, one has been injured and two more are missing after a confrontation with members of the “uncontacted” Mashco Piro people in the Peruvian Amazon, according to Indigenous activists who have criticised the government for failing to formally recognise and protect all of the isolated people’s territory.
The deadly attack, which occurred last Thursday but was made known only this week, took place a day before the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) suspended for eight months the sustainability certification of a logging company that campaigners have accused of encroaching on the fiercely territorial Indigenous group’s ancestral land.
Peruvian Amazon Indigenous groups and the NGO Survival International have demanded the FSC – an international NGO that certifies whether timber extraction is sustainable and ethical – permanently cancel its certification of the Canales Tahuamanu timber concession, which borders the reserve where the isolated Indigenous group live.
Eusebio Ríos, the vice-president of the regional Indigenous federation Fenamad, which makes up 39 Indigenous groups in Peru’s Madre de Dios and Cusco regions, said on Tuesday: “There are people wounded, dead, missing – we don’t know what’s happening or what has happened.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/sep/04/two-loggers-shot-dead-with-arrows-in-clash-with-indigenous-group-in-peruvian-amazon
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day the Spanish monsters arrived.
Their government has always been controlled by virulent racist fascists, and has never actually protected them. They are strictly on their own.
I posted this information on the same article in LBN, on a thread from Omaha Steve. I really want to add it here, too.
Thank you for standing up for the truth.
Historically, whites, and businesses have always murdered indigenous Peruvians.
It must be terrifying and unacceptable when indigenous people attempt to protect themselves!
An earlier story:
Peruvian loggers given 28 years in jail for murder of four Indigenous leaders
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Victims – among them environmental defender Edwin Chota – were tortured before their deaths in Peruvian Amazon in 2014
Dan Collyns in Lima
Fri 17 Feb 2023 17.11 EST
Five illegal loggers in Peru have been given 28-year jail sentences for the murder of four Indigenous leaders, among them the prominent anti-logging campaigner Edwin Chota, in a rare win for environmental justice.
Nearly eight years after the 2014 quadruple murder, a court in Pucallpa in the Peruvian Amazon found the loggers, Eurico Mapes Gómez and the brothers Segundo and Josimar Atachi Félix, guilty of aggravated homicide against the leaders, and sentenced them on Thursday to 28 years and three months in prison.
Edwin Chota, an activist against illegal logging, was murdered along with three other men, say Peruvian authorities
The court imposed the same sentence against Hugo Soria Flores and José Estrada Huayta, the timber businessmen convicted of planning the murder – one of the most notorious crimes against environmental defenders in Peru’s recent history.
The judge said the victims – Chota, Leoncio Quintisima, Jorge Ríos and Francisco Piñedo – were tortured before they were killed near Peru’s Amazon border with Brazil.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/17/peru-illegal-logging-murder-indigenous-leaders
Edwin Chota, beside illegal logs felled by illegal loggers on indigenous land.
Edwin Chota
Rest in peace to the thousands of indigenous Peruvians abused, tortured and murdered already, with no end in sight.
