First, the police fire tear gas, then rubber bullets. As protesters flee, they move on to live rounds. One man, wearing only a pair of shorts, stops to raise his hands in surrender. He is knocked to the ground and given an extended beating by eight policemen in black body-armour and helmets.
Demonstrators getting worked-over by the rifle butts and truncheons of Peru's security forces turn out to be the lucky ones, though. Dozens more were shot as they fled. You can see their bullet-ridden bodies, charred by a fire that swept through the scene of the incident, which has since been dubbed "the Amazon's Tiananmen".
The events of Friday, 5 June, when armed police went to clear 2,000 Aguaruna and Wampi Indians from a secluded highway near the town of Bagua Grande, are the subject of a heated political debate. They have sparked international condemnation and thrown Peru's government into crisis.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...n-1708990.html
this link shows 45 pictures of this incident including wounded and dead
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...l?action=Popup
ONCE AGAIN the greed of a few proclaim the need to to mine and deforest large swaths of the Amazon forest at any cost . Why isn`t AL GORE standing up NOW and saying something ? this from the article above
Called Death at Devil's Bend, it attempts to explain what happened when police tried to evict the
indigenous tribespeople, who had been blockading the road for several weeks in protest at
new laws allowing energy and mining companies to exploit swaths of their ancestral homelands."