2009 Peruvian political crisis

When

6 Jun 2009

Kind

Event

Coordinates

5.65° S, 75.15° W

Description

Fifty-two people die during combat between Peru's Army and indigenous peoples in the Amazon Rainforest.

Placed at the region its text puts it in, Peruvian Amazonia.

Indigenous-led anti–oil drilling protests

The 2009 Peruvian political crisis resulted from the ongoing opposition to oil development in the Peruvian Amazon by local Indigenous peoples; they protested Petroperú and confronted the National Police. At the forefront of the movement to resist the development was Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest, a coalition of indigenous community organizations in the region.

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