Indigenous community threatened in the Amazon - Take action!
On December 4, 2003, 32 members of the Amazon community of Sarayaku were
injured and unlawfully detained while mobilizing for a peaceful
protest against oil development in their territory. Please send an email
to Ecuadorian President Lucio Gutiérrez asking him to protect the human
rights of the Sarayaku community and its environment.
The Sarayaku people need your help to resist oil development in the Amazon!
Sarayaku is a Kichwa community in the Ecuadorian Amazon that is fighting for its very existence against the specter of oil exploration in its territory. Having seen the deforestation, contamination and cultural destruction of Amazonian communities elsewhere in Ecuador, Sarayaku has taken a firm stand in favor of their environmental and cultural rights, and against oil activities in its territories. This position has led to threats and retaliation by oil workers in neighboring communities. Sarayaku community members cannot travel safely on their river and cannot walk safely in their forests. They are enduring a de facto medicine embargo on their community.
Please join EarthRights International in defending the rights and environment of the Sarayaku people. Sign the petition today!
The Sarayaku people need your help to resist oil development in the Amazon!
Sarayaku is a Kichwa community in the Ecuadorian Amazon that is fighting for its very existence against the specter of oil exploration in its territory. Having seen the deforestation, contamination and cultural destruction of Amazonian communities elsewhere in Ecuador, Sarayaku has taken a firm stand in favor of their environmental and cultural rights, and against oil activities in its territories. This position has led to threats and retaliation by oil workers in neighboring communities. Sarayaku community members cannot travel safely on their river and cannot walk safely in their forests. They are enduring a de facto medicine embargo on their community.
Please join EarthRights International in defending the rights and environment of the Sarayaku people. Sign the petition today!
Señor Coronel
Lucio Gutiérrez Borbúa
Presidente de la República del Ecuador
Quito
Dear Mr. President:
I am writing to express deep concern regarding the recent events in your country regarding members of the community of Sarayaku and their efforts to protect their territories. I am also seeking an update on the welfare of individuals injured or unlawfully detained on December 4th in or near the community of Canelos, in Pastaza.
I understand that on December 4th, while some 130 members of Sarayaku were traveling to Puyo to participate in a march for peace and life in the Amazon, they were confronted and attacked in or near Canelos, by individuals affiliated with CGC, the oil company that operates the Block 23 concession. The attackers used machetes, stones and sticks, and there was also gunfire. I understand that some 32 individuals were injured three of them seriously and several were detained unlawfully by oil workers.
Mr. President, I understand that among the injured and unlawfully detained was at least one leader of the community of Sarayaku, Franco Viteri, who is specifically named by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights as the beneficiary of cautionary measures from your government to protect his safety, due to threats against him made by oil workers.
As a member of the international community concerned with the protection of human rights and of the environment, I call on your government to take all possible measures to protect the safety of these individuals, to protect all the members of the Sarayaku community, and to respect all legal rights of Sarayaku as an indigenous community. In particular, I request that you assure the leaders of Sarayaku that neither CGC or any other oil company will be brought into Block 23 with the threat or use
of force against the members of Sarayaku.
Sign PetitionSign PetitionLucio Gutiérrez Borbúa
Presidente de la República del Ecuador
Quito
Dear Mr. President:
I am writing to express deep concern regarding the recent events in your country regarding members of the community of Sarayaku and their efforts to protect their territories. I am also seeking an update on the welfare of individuals injured or unlawfully detained on December 4th in or near the community of Canelos, in Pastaza.
I understand that on December 4th, while some 130 members of Sarayaku were traveling to Puyo to participate in a march for peace and life in the Amazon, they were confronted and attacked in or near Canelos, by individuals affiliated with CGC, the oil company that operates the Block 23 concession. The attackers used machetes, stones and sticks, and there was also gunfire. I understand that some 32 individuals were injured three of them seriously and several were detained unlawfully by oil workers.
Mr. President, I understand that among the injured and unlawfully detained was at least one leader of the community of Sarayaku, Franco Viteri, who is specifically named by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights as the beneficiary of cautionary measures from your government to protect his safety, due to threats against him made by oil workers.
As a member of the international community concerned with the protection of human rights and of the environment, I call on your government to take all possible measures to protect the safety of these individuals, to protect all the members of the Sarayaku community, and to respect all legal rights of Sarayaku as an indigenous community. In particular, I request that you assure the leaders of Sarayaku that neither CGC or any other oil company will be brought into Block 23 with the threat or use
of force against the members of Sarayaku.
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