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 approved on this extremely weak space with out implementing the best safeguards for the integrity of the Indigenous peoples.’(…) ‘(The Ministry of Tradition) has made its resolution concerning the challenge plans with out having first carried out an enough anthropological research.’
UN Particular Rapporteur James Anaya (2014)
‘It’s clear that these peoples are extraordinarily weak, 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 should not at risk’.
Inter-American Fee on Human Rights (2013)
‘On condition that uncontacted tribes should not have immunity in opposition to widespread ailments, contact can lead (…) to epidemics that may end up in the loss of life of complete peoples. It’s important to uphold the precept of no contact with a purpose to guarantee their elementary rights are upheld, together with the suitable to life and integrity, the suitable to their lands and ancestral territories, and the suitable to tradition and well being.’
Pluspetrol (2012)*:
‘(Any ailments transmitted by staff might trigger) extended intervals of sickness, mass deaths, and, in the perfect circumstances, lengthy intervals of restoration.’
Pluspetrol (2012)
‘Given the impossibility of building direct contact with the populations in isolation within the Kugapakori-Nahua-Nanti Reserve it’s obscure the magnitude of the consequences that the challenge might 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 every day lives will generate concern, concern and modifications within the methods they see and conceive of the world.’
Peru’s Ombudsman (2006)
‘An increase in ailments equivalent to syphilis, respiratory ailments and influenza has been reported, which in some circumstances have led to deaths in native communities and amongst Indigenous peoples in isolation and preliminary contact.’
Tomás, Nahua man:
‘Many, many individuals died. Folks dying in every single place, like fish after a stream has been poisoned. Folks left to rot alongside stream banks, within the woods, of their homes. That horrible sickness!’
- Pluspetrol’s Anthropological Contingency Plan (2012)
