Radio Mundo Real

The National Radio Coordinator of Peru published images taken by Jaen’s Vicary amid the incidents that took place in Bagua on June 5th, when the police tried to brutally repress an indigenous blockade, which resulted in tens of people dead and others injured.

The indigenous were peacefully protesting the approval of a series of legislative decrees that woud let private investors exploit the resources of the Amazon forest.

The images show bonfires and the turmoil during the clashes, when the indigenous were trying to take the people who had been injured while the sound of helicopters took over the place.

The day after the clashes, Jaen’s Vicary had exposed how the police was waiting outside the hospital for the indigenous who had been injured, in order to arrest them.

“There are nearly 25 native people dead, whose bodies are in the morgue, and there are rumours that officers of the Special Operations Forces threw a group of indigenous into the river Marañon”, Nicanor Alvarado, representative of the Vicary’s environmental board, told the National Radio Coordinator Alvarado said he felt sorry for the police actions.

“Human rights are not enforced in Bagua, this is a war zone”, he said at the time.

Watch video of Jaen’s Vicary here