End of 2010, Fidel Torres was still in Germany and reported first-hand about the social protests of the people in Piura against the mining project Rio Blanco. Must now he and his fellow campaigners fear that flimsy legal structures to be deprived by the state organs of repression in Peru of their freedom. The occasion was the arrest and conviction of Tabra Mario Guerrero, one of the best-known activist against the Río Blanco project. Mario Tabra has now been sentenced by a court in the province Huancabamba to 13 years in prison . In judicial reasoning, it is a police officer accused of stealing the gun and fired it at him. The whole case against Mario Tabra and 35 other people who are involved in the social movement against the mining industry is marked by contradictions.
starting point was the abduction and torture of Mario Tabra and 27 other critical activists in 2005. The deportees included, in addition to the teacher Tabra, even journalists and peasant leaders. For the kidnapping are employees of the private security firm FORZA, which works among others for the British mining company Montericco Metals and officials of the state anti-terrorism task force responsible DINO. They arrested The 28 people, they dragged in a makeshift camp and tortured them for three days of physically and mentally. One of the deportees, the farmer Melanio Garcia Gonzales did not survive the torture.
Video on the attacks of FORZA and Dino (English)
Following the publication of photographic and video evidence on which the uniformed security forces posing with their victims, a Peruvian court sentenced 2009, some of the policemen. The private security guards, however, were acquitted of FORZA. Subsequently, 13 of the victims, the company Montericco Metals in Great Britain accused of human rights violations. The process is still running, but keep the judges the allegations of such gravity that they in July 2009 froze the assets of the company . Monte Ricco Metals denies that employees have taken part of the mine to the attacks.
slogan on a wall in Ayabaca The activists were intimidated by the repression and not organized in 2007 successfully voted a citizen referendum in which 97 percent of the affected population against the mining project. then increased the pressure State the persecution. To criminalize the social movement against mining in Piura, state institutions were over 300 threaten the referendum activists involved either charges or have been designed to track the environmentalists and human rights law can.
city view Ayabaca / Departemento Piura was killed in 2009 it a raid on a camp of miners of the Rio Blanco mine in which three people were. Although the motives and the perpetrators have not been able to be identified, accused the state authorities, members of the environmental movement and alleged that she had committed, in cooperation with so-called Narcotraficos (drug smugglers) the attack. Mario was then Tabra arrested and the court rolled the allegations of the alleged theft and use of police weapons from 2005 to again.
The only prosecution witness against Mario Tabra DINO is the captain Carlos Rojas Castañeda, in 2009 by a Peruvian court has convicted of kidnapping and torture just that 28 activists and manslaughter in Melanio Garcia Gonzales.
short information video on the problems in Piura
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