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Remote Amazon tribe kills illegal gold miners
Posted on 11/19/16 at 11:00 am
Posted on 11/19/16 at 11:00 am
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Members of a remote Amazon rainforest indigenous tribe have shot dead six illegal gold miners with arrows, Brazilian officials said Friday.
Brazil's Funai agency, which handles indigenous affairs, said that the killings were carried out by the Yanomami tribe in the Amazonian state of Roraima on the frontier with Venezuela.
"The deaths were reported to us by the Yanomami people's association and a team from Funai is preparing to travel there," a spokesman told AFP.
A police spokesman for Roraima state told AFP that "the causes of the conflict are not known."
The Yanomami are one of the Amazon's largest relatively isolated tribes, with an estimated population of about 35,000, according to advocacy group Survival International.
Their pristine ancestral lands have been steadily encroached upon by illegal gold miners who are blamed for introducing new diseases and polluting the rivers and forest. The Yanomami are also under pressure from cattle ranchers on the fringes of their rainforest territory.
Police said they would accompany Funai to the area, probably next week, and that the killings occurred at the start of the month but had only been confirmed now.
"We don't know the motive for the conflict because the tribespeople from the village where the deaths occurred told us by radio that they will not explain what happened until we personally go there," Junior Hekuari, chairman of the Yanomami association, told G1 news site.
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Posted on 11/19/16 at 11:04 am to blueboy
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the tribespeople from the village where the deaths occurred told us by radio
Must not be that remote.
Posted on 11/19/16 at 11:08 am to athenslife101
Sounds like some more potential refugees for us to bring to America
Posted on 11/19/16 at 11:15 am to Cosmo
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Sounds like some more potential refugees for us to bring to America
Ha. I get it! The Amazonian tribe is fleeing terrorist in the rainforest and we will take them in. We don't want that trash here.
Posted on 11/19/16 at 11:20 am to blueboy
Similar things happened to the illegal gold miners in Ghana with the Chinese. They just plug-n-play with fresh bodies.
Posted on 11/19/16 at 11:22 am to blueboy
Guns and radios does not sound very remote.
Posted on 11/19/16 at 11:25 am to LSUSUPERSTAR
Ham radio. Crank power.
Posted on 11/19/16 at 11:27 am to OysterPoBoy
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Guns
Shot them with arrows, not guns.
Posted on 11/19/16 at 11:33 am to NWLATigerFan12
They will have zero done to them. It will be blamed on getting too close to something like burial grounds or sacred such and such.
So not to self, don't mess with remote native tribes.
This could be translated as don't go deep into the hood
So not to self, don't mess with remote native tribes.
This could be translated as don't go deep into the hood
Posted on 11/19/16 at 11:54 am to blueboy
It's ok if they ate them
Posted on 11/19/16 at 11:58 am to LSUSUPERSTAR
Just about every remote tribe has some way to contact with Brazilian/Colombian governments. Just because they have radios doesn't mean they aren't remote as frick in the Amazon
Posted on 11/19/16 at 12:33 pm to blueboy
so i guess one of these shite channels wont be putting a gold digging show there?
Posted on 11/19/16 at 1:02 pm to stlslick
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so i guess one of these shite channels wont be putting a gold digging show there?
Potential arrow attacks would add to the drama as opposed to arguing amongst themselves
Posted on 11/19/16 at 1:36 pm to blueboy
You'd think they would have money for guns with all those packages they sell.
Posted on 11/19/16 at 1:45 pm to blueboy
Don't f with remote tribes baw
Posted on 11/19/16 at 2:13 pm to blueboy
So what happens now? Does the amazon tribe get arrsted for murder? How does that even work?
Posted on 11/19/16 at 2:15 pm to blueboy
Breaking News: Todd Hoffman and his dad Jack are the victims
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