Local communities worried about its effect on their farmland and way
of life, as well as pollution in rivers, have come into conflict with
authorities through years of protests.
In June 2009, 33 people died in Bagua in the Amazonas region,
when police and protesters clashed at a road blockade over a new law
allowing mining companies to enter indigenous territories without the
community’s consent.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/peruvian-police-and-soldiers-given-licence-to-kill-protesters-five-years-after-bagua-violence-9574484.html
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