A July 29 press release issued by ShinaiSerjali, an indigenous rights organization, announced that indigenous people living in voluntary isolation in the Upper Pakiria River region of southeastern Perú had been forced to move deep into the Amazon to evade workers from the PlusPetrol Oil Company. According to the statement, the oil workers threatened the Kugapakori community “with being arrested and decimated by diseases if they refuse to move from their homes.” PlusPetrol has been drilling in the area with the blessing of the Peruvian government since 1998.
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