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Isabel Guerra

The final report issued by an official commission that investigated on the death of 23 police officers and 10 civilians in Bagua, in theAmazonas region, has generated disagreements among the commission members, and the natives' representatives refused to sign it because they think it is biased.

The investigative commision concludes that the violent clashes that caused those deaths “are attributable to” the indigenous, lawmakers of the Partido Nacionalista (Nationalist Party), the national teachers' union (Sutep), radio reporters and “governmental tactlessness.”

The final text also claims that some members of religious orders were biased to the indigenous.

The report has been signed by former ministers Susana Pinilla and Pilar Mazzetti, former government official Manuel Bernales and the Dominican missionary Ricardo Alvarez.

The document does not give any clarification on which governmental authority ordered the police squads to remove the protestors that had been blocking a sector of the road, an action that generated the clashes that took 33 lives according to official figures.

The natives' representative Jesús Manacés and the Spanish nun María Gómez refused to sign the document, and sent the government a letter with “43 observations of disagreement.”

Manacés told the international press that “the commission has not determined any responsibilities, and the final conclusions do not reflect the real facts that took place last Jun. 5.”

The official debate on this official report has been delayed for Jan. 12.

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