Sunday, June 7, 2009

Peruvian Indians have killed nine hostages.

Peruvian Indians, protested the commercial use of land, which they consider tribal, killed nine people from among the hostages captured on 5 June. That was reported by BBC News, referring to official sources in the Police of Peru.
Another 22 hostages freed, seven people missing. As previously reported, the Indians took hostage 38 police officers guarding the oil derrick in the Bagua area, about 1400 kilometers from the capital Lima, Peru.
As a result of clashes with Indian police on Friday killed 11 policemen and at least 22 people from among the participants in protests. In addition, affected about one hundred persons of civilians, according to some sources, the five were killed.
The Prime Minister of Peru Eude Simon accused the parties of a challenge to an armed coup attempt aimed at the elimination of democracy in Peru. According to Simon, in the attack on the oil companies involved at least a thousand people. According to some reports, all in protest against the commercial use of land in the Amazon selva up to 8500 people attended.
According to leaders of demonstrators, the Indians behaved peacefully before the police attempted to quell the protest. The authorities, however, argue that the Indians behaved aggressively, and that many of them were armed.

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