The United Nations, Peru’s authorities and Pluspetrol have all agreed that the Camisea gasoline challenge spells catastrophe for uncontacted tribes.
Congresswoman Verónica Mendoza (2014)
‘No exercise ought to be licensed on this extremely susceptible space with out implementing the very best safeguards for the integrity of the Indigenous peoples.’(…) ‘(The Ministry of Tradition) has made its determination in regards to the challenge plans with out having first carried out an ample anthropological examine.’
UN Particular Rapporteur James Anaya (2014)
‘It’s clear that these peoples are extraordinarily susceptible, which is why the federal government and firm should act with excessive warning and shouldn’t go forward with the proposed growth earlier than first assuring conclusively that the (tribes’) human rights aren’t at risk’.
Inter-American Fee on Human Rights (2013)
‘On condition that uncontacted tribes should not have immunity towards widespread ailments, contact can lead (…) to epidemics that can lead to the demise of whole peoples. It’s important to uphold the precept of no contact with a view to guarantee their elementary rights are upheld, together with the correct to life and integrity, the correct to their lands and ancestral territories, and the correct to tradition and well being.’
Pluspetrol (2012)*:
‘(Any ailments transmitted by staff may trigger) extended durations of sickness, mass deaths, and, in one of the best instances, lengthy durations of restoration.’
Pluspetrol (2012)
‘Given the impossibility of creating direct contact with the populations in isolation within the Kugapakori-Nahua-Nanti Reserve it’s obscure the magnitude of the results that the challenge may have on them. When it comes to evaluating the impacts (on the tribes), it’s assumed that any exercise completely different to that of their each day lives will generate worry, concern and adjustments within the methods they see and conceive of the world.’
Peru’s Ombudsman (2006)
‘An increase in ailments comparable to syphilis, respiratory ailments and influenza has been reported, which in some instances have led to deaths in native communities and amongst Indigenous peoples in isolation and preliminary contact.’
Tomás, Nahua man:
‘Many, many individuals died. Individuals dying all over the place, like fish after a stream has been poisoned. Individuals left to rot alongside stream banks, within the woods, of their homes. That horrible sickness!’
- Pluspetrol’s Anthropological Contingency Plan (2012)
