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The government intends to displace peasants and indigenous |
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The Act protects internal displacement of persons or groups affected by armed conflict or natural disasters meant to be used to promote mega-scale mining, oil and dams that would be declared and overriding interest, denounced Congresswoman Jane Huancahuari Paucar.
On 4 February, the Executive presented a draft law amending Article 8 of Law No. 28223, for the Ministry of Women authorize travel in case of investment in large scale. "The government insists on pursuing a policy of dispossession of land and razing of the rights of peasant communities and the Amazon with the intention of letting the Amazon, water sources, minerals and hydrocarbons, are at the mercy of the extractive industries "he said.
"By approving the project, the State may dispose of the communal lands and for the sake of national interest (extraction of minerals, oil, gas) the Indians should go elsewhere. It is undermining the character of a law that was created to protect the rights of the displaced, "he said. Even though Article 7.2c allows arbitrary displacement in case of development projects that are justified by an overriding public interest, you can not trust a government that seeks to declare the "national interest" any major project in the mountains and forests, Huancahuari said.
"There is an inordinate interest to commercialize and privatize the resources owned by the mountains and forests, without respect for those who live and coexist in harmony with its surroundings or the ILO Convention 169 and the UN Declaration. In this regard, Convention 169 states that "indigenous peoples shall not be forcibly removed from their lands or territories.
There shall be no transfer without the free, prior and informed consent of indigenous peoples concerned. " On the other hand, assumed Santillan, DAR ong specialist, warned in the draft a distortion of the consultation process and consent to the rural communities and Amazon, reduced to a mere administrative formality.
"The government has learned nothing of what you are asking for indigenous people: respect for its decisions, its territory, their rights and a healthy environment. Deliberately President Garcia and his acolytes are creating more conflict and bloodshed, "the parliament.
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