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Stop-and-search, fire ants and stinging nettles: doling out justice to illegal miners in Peru’s Amazon
As gold prices soar and with little help from the national government, the Indigenous Wampis are taking action to stop their land from being polluted and plunderedRené Amuan Santiago Tí remembers how, armed only with wooden spears, he and his companions disarmed a group of policemen as they drew their pistols, after they caught the officers escorting a barge full of illegal mining machinery. The guns went in the river.Disarming the police officers was a risky move, but the members of the Charip, as the Indigenous guards of the Wampis Nation people are known, were confident that something was amiss. Continue reading...
As gold prices soar and with little help from the national government, the Indigenous Wampis are taking action to stop their land from being polluted and plundered
René Amuan Santiago Tí remembers how, armed only with wooden spears, he and his companions disarmed a group of policemen as they drew their pistols, after they caught the officers escorting a barge full of illegal mining machinery. The guns went in the river.
Disarming the police officers was a risky move, but the members of the Charip, as the Indigenous guards of the Wampis Nation people are known, were confident that something was amiss. Continue reading...
