Unreported World: Peru: Blood And Oil

In this edition from 2009, Unreported World travels deep into the Peruvian jungle to investigate how the government's auctioning off vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest to global oil, gas and mining corporations has led to violent clashes with thousands of indigenous tribal people. Reporter Ramita Navai and director Alex Nott examine allegations of pollution and human rights abuses, and meet a woman who believes her husband was killed by the police in a revenge attack following riots. They also interview a man who says he was shot by police and that three of his friends were killed while protesting against plans to exploit their ancestral land. After years of growing frustration, indigenous groups say they will not give up their fight until the government overturns all of the decrees that give big companies more access to the Amazon