while all in us are awaiting for Irma hurricuns In the depths of the Amazon, the genocide of native continues. And the massacre's known for a few months, a disturbing advance in Brazil, alert to the anthropologists.
The last episode of these battles from another century, delivered by prospectors hungry for gold against Indian candid, has played in the valley of Javari, a border area of Peru and to Colombia, in a protected reserve. There, ten natives, who had until now had no contact with modern society, or had decided to move away from the world of so-called " civilized ", would have been exterminated.
The crime, dated in the month of August, has not been proven, due to lack of corpses. But the police investigation after a complaint filed by the national Foundation of the Indian (Funai), which has got wind of the confidences of two garimpeiros (gold miners) underground.
In one of the pubs in the small town of Sao Paulo de Olivenza, a few days of a boat of the indigenous lands, the men would be praised for killing ten Indians had gone in search of turtle eggs. Continuing the story sordid of their adventures, the two braggarts would have specified to have them cut in pieces before throwing them into the river of Jandiatuba. "It was them or us ", would have argued the criminals.
In a region where indian villages have an average of fifteen members, the killing of alleged takes the form of tragic. It is to wipe off the map an indigenous group with its own culture, its knowledge, its history.