{"id":2140,"date":"2014-12-30T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T18:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2015-08-02T13:36:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T13:36:16","slug":"asheninka-activists-killed-protecting-perus-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/asheninka-activists-killed-protecting-perus-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"Ash\u00e9ninka activists killed protecting Peru’s forests"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAnti-logging native Peruvian activists Edwin Chota Valera, Jorge R\u00edos P\u00e9rez, Leoncio Quinticima Mel\u00e9ndez were killed 01 September 2014 by illegal loggers. Take Part comments<\/a>:<\/p>\n

National Geographic described Chota<\/a> as \u201ca charismatic activist who opposed drug traffickers and criminal timber syndicates that have come to operate with a sense of near-total impunity across broad swaths of Peru\u2019s isolated borderlands.\u201d All four men were leaders in Alto Tamaya\u2013Saweto, a community of the Ash\u00e9ninka indigenous Amazonian tribe. Although the Peruvian government has made three arrests in the case, other Ash\u00e9ninka activists have told reporters of receiving death threats in the wake of the assassinations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In The Guardian, Alex Soros shares<\/a> more about this story and tells of an important financial assistance program being offered to Peru by Norway. After the Ash\u00e9ninka activists’ deaths, Norway signed a contract with the Peruvian government<\/a> to pay USD$300 million over 6 years if deforestation is “curbed”. The annual Alexander Soros Foundation Environmental Defenders prize was awarded to the activists in 2014. <\/p>\n

CUATRO ASHANINKAS ASESINADOS EN PERU POR MADEREROS ILEGALES
\nEl pasado 01 de setiembre se murieron cuatro activistas ind\u00edgenas Peruanos<\/a> protegiendo al territorio de su gente y pa\u00eds.<\/p>\n

Edwin Chota Valera, Jorge R\u00edos P\u00e9rez, Leoncio Quinticima Mel\u00e9ndez y Francisco Pinedo, ash\u00e1ninkas<\/a> pertenecientes a la comunidad de Alto Tamaya-Saweto en la regi\u00f3n Ucayali, fueron asesinados la semana pasada. Los presuntos autores del crimen ser\u00edan madereros ilegales de la zona … el l\u00edder ind\u00edgena Edwin Chota y otros dirigentes de su comunidad han denunciado en repetidas oportunidades la presencia de madereros ilegales en sus tierras.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CALL TO ACTION
\nSign petition to Attorney General of Peru<\/a> calling for protection of indigenous community from violence and investigation of the murders of four native anti-logging activists.<\/p>\n

LLAMADA A LA ACCION
\nFirmar petici\u00f3n<\/a> de Amnist\u00eda Internacional pidiendo al Fiscal de la Naci\u00f3n y al Ministro del Interior Peruanos que aseguren una investigaci\u00f3n imparcial e inmediata de los asesinatos de los activistas ash\u00e1ninkas … y exigiendo protecci\u00f3n para los dem\u00e1s miembros de su comunidad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anti-logging native Peruvian activists Edwin Chota Valera, Jorge R\u00edos P\u00e9rez, Leoncio Quinticima Mel\u00e9ndez were killed 01 September 2014 by illegal loggers. Take Part comments: National Geographic described Chota as \u201ca charismatic activist who opposed drug traffickers and criminal timber syndicates that have come to operate with a sense of near-total impunity across broad swaths of … Continue reading Ash\u00e9ninka activists killed protecting Peru’s forests<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,176,183,67,58],"tags":[599,597,278,239,499,598,600,596,601,185],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-justice","category-nature","category-plants-pests-rescue","category-protection","tag-asesinado","tag-ashaninka","tag-destruction","tag-forest","tag-indigenous","tag-logging","tag-murder","tag-peru","tag-territorio","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}