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Peru: 4 Opponents of Illegal Logging Are Found Dead Peru: 4 Opponents of Illegal Logging Are Found Dead
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An outspoken Peruvian opponent of illegal logging and three other native Asháninka community leaders were brutally slain in a remote region bordering Brazil, tribal authorities said Monday. The activist, Edwin Chota, had received frequent death threats from illegal loggers, who he had tried for years to expel from the lands for which his community was seeking title. Loggers operating illegally in the area were suspected in the killings, said an Asháninka regional leader, Reyder Sebastian Quiltiquari. He said Mr. Chota and the others were killed about a week ago while returning to Saweto, the community he led on the Upper Tamaya River, from a meeting about the logging issue with Asháninka leaders in the nearby Brazilian village of Apiwtxa. Pervasive corruption lets the loggers operate with impunity, stripping the Amazon region’s river basins of prized hardwoods. An outspoken Peruvian opponent of illegal logging and three other native Asháninka community leaders were brutally slain in a remote region bordering Brazil, tribal authorities said Monday. The activist, Edwin Chota, had received frequent death threats from illegal loggers, whom he had tried for years to expel from the lands for which his community was seeking title. Loggers operating illegally in the area were suspected in the killings, said an Asháninka regional leader, Reyder Sebastian Quiltiquari. He said Mr. Chota and the others were killed about a week ago while returning to Saweto, the community he led on the Upper Tamaya River, from a meeting about the logging issue with Asháninka leaders in the nearby Brazilian village of Apiwtxa. Pervasive corruption lets the loggers operate with impunity, stripping the Amazon region’s river basins of prized hardwoods.