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(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)
December
A commission consisting of three representatives of the Legislative Branch will travel to the coca leaf growing areas of the Amazon jungle next week to witness "on site" the plight of peasants being held captive by terrorist groups.
Congressman Michael Martinez Gonzales confirmed the establishment of a group whose goal will be to shed some light on what has been taking place in the valleys of the Apurimac and Ene rivers.
He pointed out the urgency of preserving the human rights of the Ashaninka native communities terrorized into submission by remnants of the Shining Path terrorist group still operating in the area.
Martinez Gonzales, vice-president of the Amazon and Indian Affairs Commission, specified that the legislators selected for the fact-finding commission that will be travelling to the area battered by the remnants of terrorism would be announced in the plenary session of Tuesday 7 January.
He indicated that he would request that Congress's Board of Directors should preferably select those members who are now presidents of the Commissions of Defence, Human Rights, Alternative ...