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To separate this out would require a separate set of photos, for those who want to 'opt-in' to see the more graphic content. But to even offer that feature does feel like sick voyeurism.
Perhaps it's time to label the Peruvian government a "state sponsor of terrorism" and treat them accordingly.
And identify the multinationals who've been filling President Garcia's bank account and bring them before an international tribunal.
Housing is costly--a lot of about 20 x 100 m costs $100,000 in the provinces--so many families live together in one room; hunger is common, and in Puno children are dying from the cold while Garcia and his government live in palaces and eat regularly. Crime is a daily event, and murder merits at most 20-30 years in prison, while rape is rejected as a crime by the police, theft is hourly and if the thief is over 50 that person is told to go home and pray, as the government controls and is controlled by the churches: Roman Catholic, Episcopal/Anglican, evangelical which demands total allegiance and offers nothing and yet is a major part of the curriculum.
Nothing will change until Peru enters the secular world, dump TLC (NAFTA), and takes charge of its own natural resources, cutting military spending to help the poor, and training competent people so that the nation is no longer a servant to USA interests.
I wish people like you - and there is a depressingly large number of you on the Indie threads - would stop trying to link and conflate *every single issue and event*, anywhere in the world, with the Arab-Israeli problem!
There are bulletin boards and discussion forums by the *thousands* covering that issue, where you can bang on - and on - about it to your heart's content.
But when you try to hijack a thread on a *completely different topic* just to ride your favourite hobby horse, you come across as a single-issue fanatic, and someone who does not actually *care* about the victims in this story at all, and whose remarks are therefore not only completely irrelevant but also rather callous.
Stay on topic or get off the thread, you silly woman!
However, that being said, I agree with your comments about the UN - they show themselves to be utterly inept and impotent in situations like this; UN = Useless Numpties.
Again indigenous people are subject to the rapacity of international corporations. My understanding is that Canadian and American corporations are responsible for the real, or potential, devastation of the aborignal people's homeland. It's been going on for decades and has contributed to guerrilla/"terrorist" protest: poor and frightened people have no other way of attempting to protect their living-space.
Who remembers Rio Tinto and Bougainville? Who cares?
What reports circulate about Canadian destruction of native peoples' habitat? Demure democratic Canada is home to several of the world's most destructive mining companies, both in Canada - especially Alberta - and around the world.
And Australia? The take-over of aboriginal land and resources is a tale too terrible to be told.
During a previous presidency, Peru's Alan Garcia cooperated with multinational corporations to pillage his country. Now back in power, he is again their tool.
NAME THE CORPORATIONS. NAME THE CEOs AND CONTACT PERSONS. PUBLISH PHOTOGRAPHS OF THEM, not dead natives.
And when will a courageous journalist write about the corporate practice of destroying aboriginal peoples and their habitat in diferent parts of the world? He might start by googling John Perkins.com to glimpse how things have been done behind the "democratic" stage-scenery.
Garcia has been a continuing embarrassment--he had a record inflation of over 7649% in 1986, and his cummulative inflation before he fled in disgrace (first to Guatamala, then to France) was 2,200,200% (which is even recorded on wikipedia.com) One of the largest landowners on the coast of Peru, he has a colored past that nears the atrocities of Fujimori (when not raiding the Peru Treasury to send his children to USA schools, so that Keiko could ultimately sit with her uncle and mother in Congress [and now run for the presidency to pardon her father]). Under Garcia's orders, the army and police were told to "shoot them [the Amazonians] in the head" and leave no survivors. I live now in Peru near the Amazons, and the sky was black with smoke as military and police heliocoptors filled the airwavs and shot at the civilians indiscriminately. Garcia should be tried, sentenced, convicted and imprisoned for crimes against humanity, while Alberto Pizango, the only hero of this dark time and of the people of the Amazon merits the Peace Prize and worldwide acclamation for standing up against the tyrant Garcia and his gaggle of goons.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jun
http://amazonwatch.org/peru-protests.ph
Even the bishops say it is genocide. Peru's Health Ministry found high levels of several heavy metals in the blood of the Achuar people living along the Corrientes River in northern Peru. Experts say that the metals (which can cause neurological problems) probably came from water pumped into streams and the river as a byproduct of oil drilling. See: http://www.wcr.ab.ca/news/2009/0601/per
video from an anthropologist: http://memeticshift.com/
police beating and kicking unarmed civilians: http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jun
jacksondevive has no idea of what he was talking about, and I seriously doubt he was there. The police invaded private homes and set them ablaze, forcing fire even on to the clothing of children: http://intercontinentalcry.org/police-v
But, I keep forgetting that, to most "Christians," their religion seems only to be just another religion of either daily or weekly sanctimonious ceremonies, with verbalized meanings and participation in rituals that symbolize penitence and supposed "forgiveness," but with only a corporate-style mass grouping of "believers" who, having gone through their appointed rituals, feel freed. On such an emotional high, they leave, go home, and move quickly on to the next pleasure. But, where is the real change in their lives? Where is the boring-made-sweet that Jesus preached and lived? Every soldier who "did his ordered duty to his country," is as personally guilty as those who ordered him to do what he did to these innocent people. This indictment includes those "foreign companies" at whose behest these atrocities have been committed!
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