Clashes in Peruvian Amazon leave 40 dead

Mon, 06/08/2009 - 13:14
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Friday´s deadly clashes over territory and resources in the Peruvian Amazon have triggered international condemnation.  Peruvian police killed at least thirty indigenous people who were protesting new oil and gas projects that they say destroy ancestral lands.  The protesters say that a recent free trade deal between the US, and Peru, paved the way for these developments.  And they retaliated to the police attacks by killing twenty-two officers. Tanya Snyder reports from a human rights protest in Washington.

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