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Thursday, September 18, 2014

'The green Amazon is red with indigenous blood': authorities pull bodies from river that may have belonged to slain leaders

"We have faced violence, racism, neglect indifference, all arising from the sense of indigenous as worthless. We are outraged at the 'colonization' of the forest, where indigenous peoples are killed with impunity. We are abandoned and stripped of our riches by those in search of rubber yesterday, and today by loggers, miners, oil extractors, and tomorrow anyone who has 'power,'" COICA, and its partner-organizations, said in a statement following the murders.

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