19 February 2011

PANAMA: Indigena Clash With Police Over Mining On Ancestral Lands.

AFP /

  200 police clashed with dozens of Guaymi indigena armed with spears, sticks and stones protesting copper mining on their ancestral lands.
   Violence broke-out when police tried to clear the protestors from a bridge on a major highway outside of Panama City. Reportedly several police were injured.
   Last week the congress approved a law opening-up the western Ngobe-Bugle reservation to foreign mining projects.