Indians protesting oil and gas exploration on their lands battled police in Peru's remote Amazon Friday, with authorities and Indian leaders separately reporting nine police and 25 protester deaths…Indians have been blocking roads, waterways and a state oil pipeline intermittently since April, demanding Peru's government repeal laws they say make it easier for foreign companies to exploit their lands. [Indigenous complain that] The laws…illegally open communal jungle lands and water resources to oil drilling, logging, mining and large-scale farming...[refers to Petroperú, Pluspetrol]