London, 14 sep (EFE).-the Organization Survival International reported today that the Indians of the southeast of Peru be them has bribed with painkillers and pens when the gas industry tries to explore their land.
Said in a statement released in London, this organization advocate for the indigenous points out that even INEPA members, the Government agency established to protect the Peruvian tribes, have pressured these communities in order to carry out work of exploration in the reserves where they live.
According to the note, workers of the giant gas Pluspetrol, Argentina, has been in contact with the Nahua-Kugapakori reserve for environmental testing on their land.
The reserve was created in 1990 to protect the rights of tribes vulnerable.
The leader of Nahua, Enrique Dixpopidiba Shocoroa, revealed that his tribe has provided medical equipment and promises of work.
This situation comes to light while the President of Peru, Ollanta Humala, approved a landmark legislation designed to guarantee indigenous peoples the right to be consulted previously on any project that affects them.
According to Survival International, some 15 tribes have opted to remain isolated in the Peruvian, Amazon but they face extinction if their land are explored.
The director of Survival International, Stephen Corry, said that the “(in search) drilling of oil and gas in isolated tribal reserves is a mockery of the new law of Peru.” “Also threatens to undermine the promise of the Government to protect isolated tribes, who are particularly vulnerable”.
With non-governmental organization, half of the Nahua died because of the presence in their lands of the Shell company for oil exploration in the 1980s. EFE
