the Amazon protected by a priest and a journalist
Father Mario Bartolini, who is a Passionist missionary work in Peru for 35 years, upper part of Amazonas. E 'original Roccafluvione (AP).
Geovani Acate Coronel, a journalist, is the director of "Radio Orient", the diocesan radio station in the province of Yurimaguas (Alto Amazonas - Peru).
Both are committed to defending the rights of indigenous communities, threatened by deforestation of the high Amazon region, where the government has granted to a corporation the opportunity to destroy the forest to make way for cultivation of biomass for diesel. The conflict is in June 2009 resulted in riots and deaths and injuries among the police that among the demonstrators. According to an authoritative source last year, in a region adjacent to that where he lives Bartolini, the Peruvian army fired on peaceful demonstrations of the indigenous causing an unknown number of deaths, maybe more than 200.
Both Bartolini, and Achates were always strangers to violent action. The first (which has already received several death threats) was always close to life and the problems of his parishioners (the territory of his parish is larger than the province of Florence). The second, a good journalist, he only told through the diocesan radio station that runs throughout the conflict related to the deforestation of the Amazon, including the bloody 2009 armed attack against the indigenous demonstrators.
Yet today, along with four other leaders of the indigenous communities of the High Father Amazonas Bartolini Geovani Acate Coronel and the journalist are on trial on charges of "inciting rebellion against the public order." Risk than 3:10 p.m. years in prison. The decision at first instance is expected by the end of the story Dicembre.Attorno has created a vast body of opinion that leads to the tried and solidarity raises the question of the implications social and environmental aspects of deforestation of the Amazon. In Italy
expressed sympathy and concern FNSI, National Federation of the Italian Press. The Journalists Union Marches (the region from which Bartolini father) has already requested a meeting the Ambassador of Peru in Italy.
page facebook "support Bartolini father" has already reached 2410 members. The site www.aloemission.org has promoted a campaign to support and it has got all the details, insights and findings of the sources.
source: LSDI
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