Massacre of Uncontacted Tribe in Peru Revealed in New Reports

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/25123-massacre-of-uncontacted-tribe-in-peru-revealed-in-new-reports

An indigenous tribe living near the Brazil-Peru border may be facing violent attacks from illegal loggers and drug traffickers who are exploiting the densely forested region, according to an advocacy group.

After years of living in isolation from the outside world, several young members of this "uncontacted" tribe recently entered a nearby settled community in Brazil. Through interpreters, they told harrowing stories about their encounters in the forests.

"The majority of old people were massacred by non-Indians in Peru, who shot at them with firearms and set fire to the houses of the uncontacted," an interpreter named Zé Correia reported through Survival International, a group that advocates for tribal people's rights. "They say that many old people died, and that they buried three people in one grave. They say that so many people died that they couldn't bury them all and their corpses were eaten by vultures." [See Photos of the Uncontacted Amazon Tribes]

In late June, a few members of the tribe emerged from the forest and voluntarily made contact with Ashaninka people in the village of Simpatia, in Brazil's Acre state. FUNAI, Brazil's indigenous affairs department, released a video clip of this initial contact today (July 31) that shows young tribe members exchanging bananas and other goods.

[TheMick]

1. I suppose this is another......

.....unintended consequence of the desire for drugs.

[Judi Lynn]

2. It's painful knowing these innocent people may all lose their lives,

having them stolen, wrenched away from them by the filthiest people on earth who have learned how to violate even the most extreme outer reaches of "civilization" in their constant gluttinous search for more and more wealth.

Clearly, the hope of a haven, a shelter on our earth, of some sacred, inviolate area allowed to serve as home to the least acquisitive people on earth, has always been impossible, and we're just finding out as the last ones left are driven to seek help from strangers, also helpless against the predators.

It's unbearable knowing these monsters who hire others to do their evil work for them will not be stopped until they are completely satiated.