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22 Aug 2014

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International Survival

Brazil: Survival Intl. says isolated indigenous are threatened by illegal loggers, oil & gas firms

"More uncontacted Indians emerge in Brazil – fleeing attacks in Peru", 14 Aug 2014

A second wave of highly vulnerable uncontacted Indians has made contact with outsiders in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest…The group…reported fleeing attacks by invaders in Peru. According to Brazil’s Ministry of Health, the Indians are in good health…the Indians…[reported]…being brutally attacked and their elder relatives “massacred” by invaders on their land, believed to be cocaine traffickers. While Peruvian and Brazilian authorities signed an agreement…to protect the land of uncontacted tribes in this area in March 2014, illegal loggers, drug traffickers and oil and gas companiescontinue to put uncontacted Indians at extreme risk of violence and diseases…