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
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.
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