‘No justice’: Relatives of Murdered Indigenous Land Defenders React to Prison Sentence

Fri Apr 12 2024
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Pucallpa, Peru: As Peruvian court imposes near three-decade sentences on five men who were being retried for the 2014 murders of four Indigenous Amazon land defenders who had crossed swords with illegal loggers, also referred to as the Saweto case. But for the victims’ relatives, the verdict is too little too late. “I feel bad, after ten years this is not justice,” says says the daughter of one of the victims.

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