Saturday, June 13, 2009

Bagua: 61 disappeared indigenous


The established and respected Peruvian rights group APRODEH (La AsociaciĆ³n Pro Derechos Humanos, or The Pro Human Rights Association) has just released a report listing sixty-one people involved in the disturbances at Bagua as disappeared. These people do not appear on the lists of the dead, the arrested, the detained, the hospitalized or the accounted-for and they have not appeared again either locally in or around Bagua or in their home towns or villages since the massacre took place, despite having been positively identified as present at the protest when the police repression began.

  • Cover-up? Check
  • Burn bodies? Check
  • Dump in river? Check
  • Media gagging? Check
  • Fascist police state? Check
  • All in the name of democracy? Check