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Oil chief seeks contact with uncontacted tribes
16 May 2007

Peru’s oil chief has provoked a storm of controversy with plans to contact some of the world’s last uncontacted Indian tribes to ‘consult’ them about potential oil exploration on their land. Any forcible contact threatens them with extinction.

‘We don’t know the uncontacted tribes’ position. Nobody has consulted them and with this investigation we are going to find out what they think,’ said Daniel Saba, chairman of Perupetro, the government body responsible for granting oil licences to companies.

In equally controversial comments recently, Mr Saba said he doubted whether the uncontacted Indians even exist. In fact, at least 15 such tribes are known to survive.

Mr Saba’s comments come after US oil firm Barrett Resources admitted its workers are likely to meet uncontacted Indians if it is allowed by the Ministry of Mines and Energy to develop its oil find in Peru’s northern Amazon. The Ministry’s decision is expected imminently.

‘During seismic activities. . . workers will probably meet these uncontacted peoples,’ Barrett said.

Survival International’s director, Stephen Corry, said today, ‘It is extraordinarily arrogant of Mr Saba to think he can ‘consult’ with uncontacted Indians as if they were ordinary Peruvian villagers. Both Mr Saba, and Barrett Resources, should surely be aware that forced contact with isolated tribal people carries the real risk that they will be wiped out.’

For further information contact Miriam Ross on (+44) (0)20 7687 8734 or email mr@survival-international.org

Outrage at oil chief's plans for uncontacted tribes
21 May 2007

Peru’s national indigenous peoples’ organization has strongly condemned plans by state oil company Perupetro to forcibly contact some of the world’s last uncontacted tribes, a move that threatens them with extinction.

‘The tribes don’t want to have any contact with national society and we have to respect that,’ said Alberto Pizango Chota, president of Peru’s Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Jungle (AIDESEP).

AIDESEP described the intention to make contact as an ‘attack on the fundamental human rights of the uncontacted tribes.’ Extremely vulnerable because they do not have immunity to outsiders’ diseases, any form of contact can be fatal.

AIDESEP’s condemnation comes after Perupetro’s chairman, Daniel Saba, announced plans to ‘consult’ the uncontacted tribes about potential oil exploration on their land. Perupetro is the government body responsible for granting exploration licences to companies.

‘We don’t know the uncontacted tribes’ position,’ said Mr Saba. ‘Nobody has consulted them and with this investigation we are going to find out what they think.’

After first contact with outsiders in the mid-1980s, more than 50% of the previously uncontacted Nahua tribe died. A similar tragedy happened to the Murunahua tribe ten years later.

Zie voor het BESTAAN van deze volkeren: http://www.survival-international.org/files/related_material/55_507_946_Isolated_peoples_peru_background%20sheet.pdf