In this March 16, 2015 photo, Ashaninka Indian Guillermo Arevalo holds onto to his bow and arrow during a community meeting to discuss land titles and education, in the hamlet of Saweto, Peru. Saweto holds weekly meetings to discuss local issues, where all adults have the right to address the gathering. Four Ashaninka leaders who resisted illegal logging and campaigned for more than a decade for title to the community's ancestral tract bordering Brazil, were slain in September. Villagers complain the investigation into the murders has been slow. (Photo by Martin Mejia/AP Photo)

In this March 17, 2015 photo, illegally cut logs lay on the bank of the Putaya River between the Ashaninka Indian communities of Saweto and Puerto Putaya, Peru. Illegal logging persists unabated in this remote Amazon community where four indigenous leaders who resisted it were slain in September. Illegal loggers drag their cut trees from the jungle to the river's edge, to later move them down river to the city of Pucallpa, about a two day trip, to sell on the black market. (Photo by Martin Mejia/AP Photo)

In this March 16, 2015 photo, an Ashaninka Indian girl walks to her home in the hamlet of Saweto, Peru. Illegal logging persists unabated in this remote Amazon community where four indigenous leaders who resisted it were slain in September. Since then, several dozen people have moved away out of fear, some to Pucallpa, others to a sister Ashaninka village across the border in Brazil. (Photo by Martin Mejia/AP Photo)

In this March 16, 2015 photo, Ashaninka Indian women and girls wait on the bank of the Putaya River, to flag down a boat, in the hamlet of Saweto, Peru. They planned to go to a larger community where they can buy goods. The nearest store selling soap and cooking oil is a 30-minute boat ride. (Photo by Martin Mejia/AP Photo)

This March 16, 2015 photo shows small boats anchored along the shore of the Ucayali River near Pucallpa, Peru. Illegal logging persists unabated in this remote Amazon community where four indigenous leaders who resisted it were slain in September. The leaders campaigned for more than a decade for title to the community's ancestral tract bordering Brazil. (Photo by Martin Mejia/AP Photo)

In this March 17, 2015 photo, Ashaninka Teresa Lopez washes pots after cooking breakfast for her family, along a stream in the hamlet of Saweto, Peru. Ashaninka Indians, whose staple diet is yucca, banana, fish and chicken eggs, use the stream for washing and drinking. However, some people in the hamlet drink bottled water. (Photo by Martin Mejia/AP Photo)

In this March 16, 2015 photo, Ashaninka Indian Milton Vasquez and his daughter Karen rest at their home in the hamlet of Saweto, Peru. Vasquez, married with one child, had just returned from his morning fishing trip. Saweto's population officially stood at 106 before four community leaders who resisted illegal logging were slain in September. Less than 70 remain. (Photo by Martin Mejia/AP Photo)

This March 16, 2015 photo shows where Ashaninka Indians live in hamlets, along the Putaya River, in Peru's Ucayali department. Illegal logging persists unabated in this remote Amazon community where four indigenous leaders who resisted it were slain in September. (Photo by Martin Mejia/AP Photo)

In this March 17, 2015 photo, Ashaninka Indian men, identified by locals as illegal loggers, tie tree trunks together to move them along the Putaya River near the hamlet of Saweto, Peru. Illegal logging persists unabated in this remote Amazon community where four indigenous leaders who resisted it were slain in September. The Putaya River is the waterway that transports felled trees, cut both legally and illegally, to the city of Pucallpa. (Photo by Martin Mejia/AP Photo)

In this March 16, 2015 photo, an Ashaninka boy sits quietly during a weekly community meeting inside a one-room school house in Saweto, Peru. Like other Ashaninka hamlets, Saweto holds weekly meetings to discuss local issues, where all adults have the right to address the gathering. A former regional ombudsman advising the community, said only a few bureaucratic hurdles remain to obtain the title to their ancestral tract bordering Brazil, but it's “no guarantee against illegal logging”. (Photo by Martin Mejia/AP Photo)

This March 16, 2015 photo shows a camp recently built by illegal loggers in an area of the jungle where dozens of Ashaninka Indian hamlets are located in the department of Ucayali, Peru. This is how illegal loggers begin, by setting up a base camp and cutting down trees in a radius around the structure. The felled trees are dragged to the nearby Putaya River. (Photo by Martin Mejia/AP Photo)

In this March 16, 2015 photo, Ashaninka Indian Karen Shawiri carries her baby boy away from the river after accompanying her husband on a morning fishing trip on the Putaya River in Saweto, Peru. Shawiri was elected secretary of her hamlet less than one year ago, and works to coordinate the community's weekly meetings. (Photo by Martin Mejia/AP Photo)

In this March 16, 2015 photo, Pedro Tello draws for fun in his notebook as his younger brother Felix hangs out with him inside their home, illuminated by a candle on a tin can, serving as a makeshift candle holder, in the Ashaninka Indian hamlet of Saweto, Peru. Both boys attend school in the same one-room hut. (Photo by Martin Mejia/AP Photo)

In this March 16, 2015 photo, Ashaninka Indian Gabriel Lopez, his community's only school teacher, writes down the names of people attending a weekly meeting in the hamlet of Saweto, Peru. Lopez is bilingual, speaking both Ashaninka and Spanish, like the majority of his community. However, Lopez teaches students in their native language. (Photo by Martin Mejia/AP Photo)