Assassinations in the Amazon: How will Peru respond?
by David Hill

The Guardian    Translate This Article
13 September 2014

On 13 September 2014 The Guardian reported: 'Martyrs', 'true guardians of the Amazon', 'defenders of the rainforest. . .' These are just some of the terms used to describe four Peruvian indigenous leaders who were assassinated earlier this month, but 'Dead Friends of the Earth', a term used by NGO Global Witness for people killed defending their land or the environment, might be another. The four men -- Edwin Chota Valera, Leoncio Quincima Melendez, Jorge Ríos Perez, and Francisco Pinedo, from the Asheninka people -- are widely believed to have been killed by loggers, although regional indigenous organisation Orau acknowledges 'narco-traffickers' may have been responsible. Led by Chota Valera, the Asheninkas had been fighting for years to gain legal recognition of their territory and had repeatedly denounced illegal logging and logging concessions on land claimed by their community, Alto Tamayo-Saweto. Several recent reports by European NGOs -- Global Witness, Friends of the Earth, Front Line Defenders -- have highlighted the rise in the number of people being killed for defending their land or the environment, or the risks associated with doing so. As of 31 December 2013 Global Witness placed Peru in fourth position globally, with almost 60 such killings since 2002, behind Brazil way out in first place, Honduras in second, and the Philippines in third. Global Good News service views this news as the failure of modern government systems. Such 'flops' highlight the need for more intelligent, evolutionary, Natural Law based, life-supporting systems.

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