AMAZON WATCH - On Fifth Anniversary of Bagua Massacre, State Department Cables Published on Wikileaks Reveal U.S. Role

10.6.14

AMAZON WATCH - On Fifth Anniversary of Bagua Massacre, State Department Cables Published on Wikileaks Reveal U.S. Role

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Washington, DC – On the fifth anniversary of a deadly
confrontation in Peru spurred by controversial policies enacted to
comply with the U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement (FTA), Amazon Watch and
Public Citizen expressed extreme concern over recently revealed U.S.
diplomatic cables showing the U.S. government's role in the violence
that resulted in the deaths of at least 32 people.





On June 5, 2009, Peruvian security forces attacked several thousand
indigenous Awajun and Wambis protestors, including many women and
children, who were blocking the "Devil's Curve," a jungle highway near
Bagua, 600 miles north of Lima. The protestors were demanding revocation
of decrees providing new access to exploit their Amazonian lands for
oil, gas and logging that had been enacted to conform Peruvian law to
FTA requirements.