Lima, Peru | Saturday 04 July 2009 07:22 | | |

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This afternoon the Peruvian Congress, following a recommendation issued by the Government, repealed Legislative Decrees 1090 and 1064, which amended the Forestry and Wildlife Act and the Legal Regime for Agricultural Lands, respectively.
Amazon protest leader Alberto Pizango has just left Peru on a plane headed for Nicaragua, where he has been granted political asylum.
Peru's Ministry of Transports and Communication has officially closed the local Radio Station La Voz de Utcubamba (in the Amazonian Region).
Peru's Ombudsman, Beatriz Merino Lucero, declared to local Radio Capital that no mass graves have been found by the prosecutors.
The Parish priest of Bagua, Casinaldo Ramos, informed RadioProgramas del Perú (RPP) that a mass grave has been found containing the bodies of native peoples, close to an area known as El Reposo.
Peru's Amazon indigenous leaders and Ombudsman Office presented today very different death toll figures.
According to regional radio La Voz de Utcubamba (Voice of Utcubamba), in Amazonas, Peru's National Police is arresting the Amazon natives from the Santiago Apostol Hospital.
According to the telephonic call made from Imasita village (Amazonas region) aired by Limean Radio Capital, natives have already killed 18 out of the 38 hostages at PetroPeru Station N°6.
A total of 38 police officers are hostages at PetroPeru Station N°6, where hundreds of amazonian protesters are threatening to kill them and “blow up all the whole place” if the government does not derogate inmediately the decrees 1090 and some others from the Forestal Law they reject
Peru's Minister of the Interior, Mecedes Cabanillas, confirmed that nine policemen died this morning during clashes with Amazonian natives in a sector known as "Curva del Diablo" (Devil's Curve) between kilometers 200 and 202 of the Fernando Belaunde Terry road, in Bagua (Amazon Region).
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