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Peru's Indigenous People Win One Round Over Developers
World  (tags: world, peru, amazon, rainforest, indians, indigenous, people, human, rights, freedom, civil, liberty, politics, government, money, business, logging, hunting, fishing, habitat, destruction, environment, private, investment )

Tom
- 139 days ago - latimes.com
Private investment in the Amazon brought misery to its indigenous people. Logging and other activities ruined tribal lands and set off protests leading to the revocation of laws to further open the Amazon to outsiders. The Indians beat them by a knockout.
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Protesters Gird for Long Fight Over Opening Peru's Amazon To Oil Drilling and Logging Deforestation
World  (tags: peru, amazon, rainforest, climate-change, global warming, protests, deaths, oil, oil-drilling, logging, deforestation, world, americas, violence, corruption, news, environment, ecosystems, government, forests, habitatdestruction, HumanRights )

SirRobert
- 164 days ago - nytimes.com
Faced with a simmering crisis over dozens of deaths in the quelling of indigenous protests last week, Peru's Congress this week has suspended the decrees that had set off the protests, which were focused upon saving the Amazon rainforests.
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Uphold Indigenous Rights - Save the Amazon! - Sign AVAAZ Petition
World  (tags: Peru, Amazon, Amazon Rainforest, government, HumanRights )

Joanna
- 167 days ago - avaaz.org
Peru is witnessing violent clashes between indigenous groups desperately trying to protect the Amazon and the government, who has pushed through legislation allowing intensive mining, logging and large scale farming in the rainforest. Please sign!
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At Least 30 Indians Inc 3 Children, 9 More Police Killed in Amazon Protests in Peru
World  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', conflict, crime, death, ethics, freedoms, Human Rights, corruption, society, violence, world, Peru )

Pete
- 169 days ago - google.com
On Friday, Pizango accused the government of "genocide" for attacking what he called a peaceful protest. Indians have been blocking roads, waterways and a state oil pipeline intermittently since April 9, demanding that Peru's government repeal laws they
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Amazon Native Nations Once Again Show Their Discontent to Peru
World  (tags: world, native rights, Peru, ethics, HumanRights, humanrights, politics, conflict )

Cal
- 207 days ago - indiancountrytoday.com
Natives in Peru belonging to groups like the 70,000-strong Awajun nation in the north near Ecuador, and the 50,000-strong Ashaninkas in the center have been showing discontent since April 9, by blocking commercial waterways in a vast region without highwa
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Ex-Peru President Alberto Fujimori Found Guilty of Ordering Massacres:
World  (tags: Alberto Fujimori, peru, president, violence, murder, kidnapping, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', death, humanrights )

Madalena
- 229 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The court still has to deliver its sentence, which could be as much as 30 years. - This is the first time an elected Latin American head of state has been tried in his own country of human rights abuses, in what was the most expensive trial in Peru's hist
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Peruvian Government Attacks Violently Civilian Protestors in Southern Peru
World  (tags: Peru, workers, corporations, civilians bombed )


- 521 days ago - peruanista.blogspot.com
Peru bombed striking miners on behalf of an American/Mexican owned mining corporation. You may have to scroll down a bit on the site to read the story and see the accompanying videos.
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Four Members of 'Lost' Peruvian Tribe Die After 'Being Infected With Common Cold By British TV Crew'
World  (tags: health, drugs, disease, tribe, peru, ethics )

Dima
- 606 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
A Peruvian tribe is under attack from one of the West's worst invaders - the flu.A British television researcher is being blamed for carrying the bug into the remote community.
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ON THIS DAY - 1962: Thousands Killed in Peru Landslide
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Chrissy
- 683 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
At least 2,000 people are believed to have been killed after a massive avalanche of rocks and ice buried an entire mountain village and several settlements in north-west Peru. Last night millions of tons of snow, rocks, mud and debris tumbled down the
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Little-Known Tribe Spotted in Peru's Amazon
World  (tags: world, tribe, peru, amazon, rainforest )

Linda
- 785 days ago - gulf-times.com
Members of an Indian tribe are seen on a bank of a river in the jungle of Madre De Dios. A little-known nomadic Indian tribe has been spotted by ecologists in Peru's Amazon rainforest, carrying arrows for bows and staying in huts made of palm leaves...
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Hundreds Die in Powerful Peruvian Earthquake
World  (tags: world, Peru, flood, floods, earthquake, environment, destruction, weather )

Danielle
- 830 days ago - news.aol.com
Assistant Secretary-General Margareta Wahlstrom, the deputy emergency relief coordinator, told reporters at U.N. headquarters that "so far (there are) 450 deaths counted, and injured about 1,500." Rescuers struggled across a shattered countryside on Thurs
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Large Quake Jolts Peru; Tsunami Warning Issued
World  (tags: earthquake, world, tsunami, Peru, world, safety, risk, risks, alert, world )

Echo
- 830 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
7.5-magnitude temblor shakes Lima, reportedly causes power outages, fires
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Earthquake Strikes Peru Cities; 17 Dead
World  (tags: peru, lima, tsunami, earthquake, deaths, tragedy, south america )

Chrissy
- 831 days ago - news.com.au
A TSUNAMI warning was issued for South America's Pacific coast after an earthquake shook Peru today, killing at least 17 people. The quake toppled buildings and caused hundreds to flee office buildings. Cable news station Canal N reported that a church
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7.9 Quake Kills at Least 337 in Peru
World  (tags: children, deaths, earthquake, world, Peru, South America, prayers )

Teresa
- 831 days ago - wzzm13.com
LIMA, Peru (AP) - A powerful 7.9-magnitude earthquake shook Peru's coast near the capital, killing at least 337 people and injuring more than 827 others, the Civil Defense said early Thursday.
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