Uncontacted People Still Being Massacred in Amazonia
by LEWIS EVANS
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/16/uncontacted-people-still-being-massacred-in-amazonia/
Excerpt:
Ten indigenous people – including women and children – were murdered in the Javari Valley region of the Amazon in September this year, according to reports. Their bodies were alleged to have been mutilated and dumped in a river. The attack was believed to have been carried out by gold miners, two of whom were later recorded bragging about it in a local bar.
This is not the story of some conquistadors or rubber tappers in the colonial era. This happened in 2017 – just weeks ago – in the present-day Republic of Brazil. Despite all of the apparent “progress” that humanity has made over the past few centuries, whole populations of indigenous peoples are still being systematically annihilated by land invaders and colonists.
Full Article here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/16/uncontacted-people-still-being-massacred-in-amazonia/