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Tear Gas and Guns Fired at Ngabe Indigenous People for Protesting the Barro Blanco Hydroelectric Projectby locaonga |
On Friday, May 18th a group of Ngabes and solidarists hiked to the construction site of the Barro Blanco dam on the Tabasara River. They were met with tear gas, bombs and live fire. The indigenous group was unarmed and outnumbered, 300 to 50. One man was wounded from a nearby explosion.
“Yesterday was war. [Martinelli] is massacring our people. He killed one, he killed another and yesterday he nearly killed again. If we killed one of theirs we would be in trouble, but they kill one of ours and deny it,” Rogelio Rodriquez, a prominent Ngabe community member said.
A group Ngabe men blockading a construction bridge that
crosses the Tabasara River in the Veraguas Province, Panama Continue reading “Save the Ngabe people..Stop the Dam!”
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