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Awajún and Wampís communities

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Awajún and Wampís communities

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The Bagua confrontation exposes the cost of denying Indigenous consultation

📅 5 June 2009

A police operation against an Indigenous road blockade near Bagua led to deadly violence involving protesters and police. Awajún and Wampís communities had opposed laws affecting ancestral land and...