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UNBELIEVABLE: Mennonite communities raise hackles in peruvian amazon | History Defined

David Klassen, one of the founders of the Mennonite community at Masisea in the Peruvian Amazon, poses for a picture with his family (Credit: AFP)

When they saw men with arrows and machetes bearing down on them, Daniel Braun and other Mennonites living in the Peruvian Amazon fled across rice paddies, some of their barns ablaze behind them.

In Masisea, a remote settlement near Peru's border with Brazil accessible only by boat along a tributary of the Amazon or over dirt paths, members of the austere Protestant sect are under siege.

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