Peru's riverboat sentinels warn remote Amazon tribe of "total genocide"

[Judi Lynn]

by Neil Giardino | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Friday, 8 December 2017 17:45 GMT



DIAMANTE, Peru, Dec 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Peru's remote southern Amazon, villagers rushed to the riverbank to witness a rare sighting - a group of Mashco Piro nomads standing on the other side, brandishing bows and arrows.

An elder from the indigenous hunter-gatherers, who have lived largely in isolation inside the rainforest for millennia, called to the Diamante villagers to ferry them across.

But a boat from the culture ministry intercepted the group, and carried them up the Madre de Dios River to issue a warning.

The officials told the Mashco Piro: "Evil people live on the other side of the river. If you cross, they will kill you."

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