Peru indigenous warn of ‘ethnocide by inaction’ as coronavirus hits Amazon tribes (4-24-20)

Peru indigenous warn of ‘ethnocide by inaction’ as coronavirus hits Amazon tribes

Maria Cervantes

4-24-2020

Indigenous tribes in Peru’s Amazon say the government has left them to fend for themselves against the coronavirus, risking “ethnocide by inaction,” according to a letter from natives to the United Nations and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

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