from Hsinhua 5/9/63 ; : Ten Thousand Indians of the central mining zone of Peru seized 500 hoctares (1,235 acres) of land which had boon oscupied fifty years ago by the U.S. Cerro do Pasco Copper Corporation This was the biggest peasant action for land in the country this year. Tho land had orizina lly basen tho property of the Indian peasants, The smoke from the U.S» Gorporation had destroyed the pasturage, so the peasants had to loave it fifty yoars ago, Tho land was then annexed by the Corporation which turned it into its own ranch efter eliminating the smoke, ieee
The Indians, briging in with them their furniture and animals, — arrived on September at the ranch from their small town some 11 miles away pnd osoupied tho land, Seizure of land by the Indians had boon reported in tho same aren not long ago. Brute force had boon used against them, tt” ~ they had the support of the people of the country, Fe