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UN to Check Amazon Clash in Peru
Lima - UN special rapporteur on Indigenous
Peoples James Anaya expects to visit Peru to check
consequences of the conflict between the government
and Amazon indigenous people, a non-official source
reported Monday.
Ernesto de la Jara, leader of the Legal Defense
Institute (IDL), said the government has accepted
the visit. It will clear up the situation of about
60 indigenous people that disappeared in the
conflict zone.
De la Jara told television media of the need for an
impartial investigation on what had happened with
those native people after the June 5 clash that
killed 13 policemen and 10 indigenous people in the
northern jungle zone of Bagua.
He also addressed the possibility that those
disappeared are really hidden, and said the IDL
wants elements to question the official figure of
deaths.
Humanitarian activists and the Ombudsman's Office
have started to visit native communities that
participated in those clashes, to verify how many
indigenous people have not still returned home, De
la Jara noted.
Juan Jose Quispe, lawyer of the Pro Human Rights
Association, stated that the main problem to confirm
the number of disappeared after the Bagua incidents
is the limited State's agents to provide
information. |
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