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

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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.

Read the full article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-peru-indigenous/peru-indigenous-warn-of-ethnocide-by-inaction-as-coronavirus-hits-amazon-tribes-idUSKCN22639A?fbclid=IwAR1QtOjXFYTcUpWvr7G9bB2lvZP8q7zsFVx0CTy9U-FXcLm2Ii93Hyftm4Q