Raúl Zibechi | June 16, 2009
Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)
americas.irc-online.org
Translated from: Masacre en la Amazonia: La guerra por los bienes comunes
Translated by: Laura Carlsen
The events of June 5 left hundreds wounded and between 20-25 dead. Photo: intercontinentalcry.org.
Three MI-17 helicopters took off from the base of the National Police in El Milagro at six in the morning of Friday, June 5. They flew over Devil’s Curve, the part of the highway that joins the jungle with the northern coast, which had been occupied for the past 10 days by some 5,000 Awajún and Wampi indigenous peoples. The copters launched tear gas on the crowd (other versions say that they also shot machine guns), while simultaneously a group of agents attacked the road block by ground, firing AKM rifles. A hundred people were wounded by gunshot and between 20-25 were killed.
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