CONAP press release denouncing violence in the Central Rainforest
CONAP published a communiqué on February 17, 1990 denouncing the violence in Selva Central, demanding an investigation, sanctioning those responsible and demanding that the State assume its role in pacification.
On February 17, 1990, the Confederation of Amazonian Nationalities of Peru (CONAP) published a communiqué denouncing the violence in the central jungle. This communiqué followed the massacre of fifteen ronderos in the community of Dos de Mayo and in a context of intolerable conditions of insecurity in the region. CONAP demanded an exhaustive investigation and sanction of those responsible for the violence. It also demanded that the State assume its role in the pacification of the area.