Peru's forces of law and order caught on video

On Thursday June 11th there were demonstrations in support of the Amazon indigenous all over Peru. Here comes a video that shows how Peru's National Police Force (PNP) dealt with the demostrations.

This video was shot in the town of Huancayo. Later Peruvian national media reported that incident as "Five Police Injured in clashes with University Students" and talk about how police came under "a hail of stones". Stunningly, not a mention in Peruvian media as to how dozens of police officers used powerful slingshots to stone protestors.

Watch the video. Pretty incredible four minutes worth of raw footage of how those "humble police officers" treat citizens when (they think) nobody is looking (watch out from about minute 3 when they really get busy with those slingshots). A very large hat tip, once again, to The Huanca York Times.

opinions of the bagua massacre in peru

The admirable blog Huanca York Times (if you know the region in question you'll get the joke) does a great job of clipping together the opinions of Peruvian commentators bout the Bagua bloodshed and compiling them in one space. Please click through the the HYT here to see more and also the chilling photos on offer of the repression at Bagua.

Here below are the moneylines chosen by the blog translated into English. The names of the analysts below may not be well-known where you live but these people are heavyweights in Peru. The sum total is that intellectuals are not putting up with Twobreakfasts' demagoguery any longer.

César Hildebrandt:

"(...) Mr. Yehude Simon has told us that he is not going to resign. Well, that's his right. What he has to realize, however is that a line of cadavers will follow him, from now on, anywhere he goes (...)".

Augusto Álvarez Rodrich:

"(...) Shame on García, as this undemocratic road will take him to the applause of the most autocratic and racist sectors of the country".

Humberto Campodónico:

"The violence and death yesterday in Bagua are the product of the government's will to complete the "incomplete reform" that is demanded by the neoliberals (...)".

Carlos Castro:

"(...) García, in his arrogance, does not recognize the responsinility of his government in the deaths that have ocurred up to now due to the protest (...)".

Fernando Rospigliosi:

"The carnage of the last few days has no comparison and will, without doubt, mark the second government of Alan García the way that the prison massacres were a reference point of his first government (...)".

Jorge Bruce:

"(...) a hegemonic, "hortelanic" vision is imposed where the opinion of " a hoard of savages with arrows" is oppressed with powerful firearms (...)".