‘Uncontacted’ Amazon Tribe Members Are Reported Killed in Brazil
- 7 years ago
‘Uncontacted’ Amazon Tribe Members Are Reported Killed in Brazil
"It’s not something that was happening before." Survival International, a global indigenous rights group, warned
that given the small sizes of the uncontacted Amazon tribes, this latest episode could mean that a significant percentage of a remote ethnic group was wiped out.
Activists worry that the country’s indigenous groups — and especially the uncontacted tribes — are the most vulnerable when it comes to land disputes.
Sarah Shenker said that If the investigation confirms the reports, it will be yet another genocidal massacre resulting directly
from the Brazilian government’s failure to protect isolated tribes — something that is guaranteed in the Constitution,
He said the episode was alleged to have occurred in the Javari Valley — the second-largest indigenous reserve in Brazil — in the remote west.
With land disputes on the rise in many remote areas of Brazil, indigenous groups, rural workers and land activists have all been targeted by violence.
Leila Silvia Burger said that It was crude bar talk,
"It’s not something that was happening before." Survival International, a global indigenous rights group, warned
that given the small sizes of the uncontacted Amazon tribes, this latest episode could mean that a significant percentage of a remote ethnic group was wiped out.
Activists worry that the country’s indigenous groups — and especially the uncontacted tribes — are the most vulnerable when it comes to land disputes.
Sarah Shenker said that If the investigation confirms the reports, it will be yet another genocidal massacre resulting directly
from the Brazilian government’s failure to protect isolated tribes — something that is guaranteed in the Constitution,
He said the episode was alleged to have occurred in the Javari Valley — the second-largest indigenous reserve in Brazil — in the remote west.
With land disputes on the rise in many remote areas of Brazil, indigenous groups, rural workers and land activists have all been targeted by violence.
Leila Silvia Burger said that It was crude bar talk,