Peru tries to expel Priest campaigning for tribal rights
source: http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/americas/peru+tries+to+expel+aposincendiary+grin...
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There was an interesting report on Channel 4 news about a missionary, Brother Paul, from Portsmouth who is currently helping tribes in the Amazon speak out against oil drilling in the Amazon.
In the report they interviewed a women who lost children from what she describes as poisoned water, along with footage obtained from Brother Paul which shows oil in the river. Another tape films a body of a man who is said to have been tortured and killed for opposing oil drilling in the area, the death was never investigated.
"One of her surviving sons, Jose, is sitting beside her. Brother Paul McAuley helped get him out of jail where he says he was tortured, for protesting against the oil companies and the abuse of native human rights. "-Channel 4 news
The government in Peru tried to expel Brother Paul, but lawyers from the church gained an injunction "granting him leave to appeal against his possible expulsion.[...]Brother Paul is certainly an unorthodox Catholic. Three times he has drunk Ayahuasca, the juice from a forest vine known as the "Rope of Death" which sends Indians onto a psychedelic journey into what they believe is the future."-Channel 4 news.
In the report they interviewed a women who lost children from what she describes as poisoned water, along with footage obtained from Brother Paul which shows oil in the river. Another tape films a body of a man who is said to have been tortured and killed for opposing oil drilling in the area, the death was never investigated.
"One of her surviving sons, Jose, is sitting beside her. Brother Paul McAuley helped get him out of jail where he says he was tortured, for protesting against the oil companies and the abuse of native human rights. "-Channel 4 news
The government in Peru tried to expel Brother Paul, but lawyers from the church gained an injunction "granting him leave to appeal against his possible expulsion.[...]Brother Paul is certainly an unorthodox Catholic. Three times he has drunk Ayahuasca, the juice from a forest vine known as the "Rope of Death" which sends Indians onto a psychedelic journey into what they believe is the future."-Channel 4 news.
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