Images reveal full horror of ‘Amazon’s Tiananmen’

Peru accused of cover-up after indigenous protest ends in death at Devil’s Bend

By Guy Adams in Los Angeles | The Independent/UK, June 19, 2009

The bloodied face of a protester as behind him fellow protestors are arrested by police

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First, the police fire tear gas, then rubber bullets. As protesters flee, they move on to live rounds. One man, wearing only a pair of shorts, stops to raise his hands in surrender. He is knocked to the ground and given an extended beating by eight policemen in black body-armour and helmets.

Demonstrators getting worked-over by the rifle butts and truncheons of Peru’s security forces turn out to be the lucky ones, though. Dozens more were shot as they fled. You can see their bullet-ridden bodies, charred by a fire that swept through the scene of the incident, which has since been dubbed “the Amazon’s Tiananmen”.

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