Written by Jess Morgan
Deaths of Campaigners brings illegal logging to light
A quadruple homicide in Peru's Amazon Ucayali region has brought to light illegal logging activities and speculation regarding the safety of indigenous peoples.
Four Asheninka natives' bodies were found on 1st September while on their way to Apiwtxa, an Ashéninka community across the border in Brazil. They included a prominent anti-logging campaigner, Edwin Chota, who was the leader of Alto Tamaya-Saweto, a community near the Peruvian frontier with Brazil in the upper reaches of Alto Tamaya River. Chota had been leading campaigns for over 10 years striving to gain his people legal titles to their land and to expel illegal loggers from the area.
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