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"Fallout Continues from Peru's Killing of Amazon Oil Protesters" [1]

After Peruvian police opened fire June 5, 2009, on indigenous Amazonian people protesting the taking of their land for oil drilling, killing at least 34, some laws have been repealed and some ministers have lost thier jobs.

Jeanne Roberts reports for SolveClimate July 13, 2009.
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Source: SolveClimate [2], 07/14/2009
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fallout-continues-perus-killing-amazon-oil-protesters [2] http://solveclimate.com/blog/20090713/violent-crackdown-amazon-oil-protest-reverberates-around-world [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/activism [4] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/south-america [5] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81