Legal proceedings continue in Bagua, a town on the edge of the rainforest in Peru's Amazonas region, against 25 Awajún and Wampis indigenous activists over deadly violence at a pumping station for the North Peru Oilduct [10] in June 2009. Station 6 had at that time been under occupation by indigenous activists opposed to expansion of oil operations into their Amazonian homelands. Violence broke out at the occupied pumping station on June 5, 2009, when word reached the activists there of that morning's Bagua massacre [11], precipitated by National Police attacking an indigenous roadblock outside the town. Ten agents of DINOES, the National Police elite anti-riot force, were slain in the clash at Station 6. Prominent indigenous leader Alberto Pizango, already cleared of charges connected to the violence at Bagua, is now among those being tried for the bloodshed at Station 6. The trial at the Bagua Penal Chamber opened Jan. 9, with the defendants facing possible life terms for kidnapping, armed rebellion, riot and other charges. (La República [12], Ideele Radio [13], Lima, Jan. 9)
Another trial related to the Station 6 incident, in which 22 Awajún and Wampis activists face murder charges, opened Sept. 1 in the same courtroom. Attorney Juan José Quispe of Peru's Legal Defense Institute (IDL [14]) is seeking to have charges dropped against several of the defendants, asserting that they had been arrested that morning in the clash at Bagua, and therefore could not have been at Station 6 at the time of the violence there. Four facing charges in the Station 6 case remain at large and under arrest orders. (La República [15], Sept. 1, 2017; Radio Reina de la Selva [8], Chachapoyas, Amazonas, July 14, 2017)
Media reports at the time of the violence (e.g. La República [16] of June 7, 2009) said the police agents at Station 6 were klled "in vengeance" for the attack at Bagua.
