Peruvian Indian Clashes with police over the loss of life, transmits AFP. Killed at least 11 policemen and seven participants in protests in the north of Peru. The Indians are fighting against the commercial use of land in the Amazon selva.
On the number of dead received conflicting information. According to one of the organizers of protests in clashes with police killed 25 Indians. TV channel CNN reported 22 fatalities among the demonstrators. The clashes on Friday, June 5, began after some 400 police tried to disperse the Indians, blocked the highway near the town of Bagua, about a thousand kilometers to the north of the capital of Peru - Lima.
Disgruntled Indians demand the lifting of the decrees of President Alan Garcia (Alan Garcia) from the 2007 and 2008, which were lifted restrictions on oil and other minerals, timber mortise and agriculture in the selva. Way in the vicinity of Bagua trucks and barricades blocked the approximately 2.5 thousand demonstrators, many of whom were armed with spears.
Late in the evening on Friday, Prime Minister of Peru Eude Simon (Yehude Simon) and the Minister of Internal Affairs Kabanillas Mercedes (Mercedes Cabanillas) reported that at the hands of disgruntled Indians killed 11 policemen and two civilians. In addition, Simon said that taken hostage 38 police officers guarding the oil business in the region of Bagua.
In protests that began in April, involved some 65 Indian groups. Leader of the Scriptures as demonstrators Alberto (Alberto Pizango) argues that the demonstrators represent the 1350 settlements, about 600 thousand Amazonian Indians. Scripture and its allies demand from the government to recognize the tribal area of approximately 25 million hectares of land.
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