LIMA: Hundreds of indigenous Indians from the Peruvian Amazon demanded compensation for land use at 14 oil wells, where their demonstrations caused production to be suspended, Argentine oil company Pluspetrol said Wednesday.

Some 300 to 400 indigenous people have been gathering at the oil wells near Peru’s border with Ecuador since Tuesday.

Pluspetrol said the demonstration had resulted in the suspension of production, and had also blocked transportation on a stretch of the Tigre River.

The protesters, who belong to the Achuar and Kichwa ethnic groups, say that dialogue with the company is a precondition for the tribes to leave the wells, the Federation of Indigenous Communities of the Corrientes River said.

Published in Dawn, January 29th, 2015

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