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Report: Amazon tribe may have fallen victim to drug traffickers
Suspected Peruvian drug traffickers have destroyed a guard post protecting a recently discovered indigenous tribe in Brazil's Amazon rain forest, the aid group Survival International reports.
Aerial film and still images of the tribe were first shown to the world in February. The Brazilian government's National Indian Foundation established the guard station near the tribe's territory along Brazil's border with Peru to protect the Indians from outsiders.
Survival International said Monday that Brazilian authorities can now find no sign of the tribe.
"We think the Peruvians made the Indians flee. ... We are more worried than ever. This situation could be one of the biggest blows we have ever seen in the protection of uncontacted Indians in recent decades. It’s a catastrophe," Carlos Travassos, the head of Brazil's isolated Indians department, said in a Survival International statement.
Survival International reports the tribe's lands are near the Envira River, which Peruvian cocaine smugglers reportedly use as a route into Brazil.
Brazilian authorities report groups of men armed with machine guns and rifles are in the nearby forest, according to the aid group.
Authorities had recovered a drug trafficker's rucksack with a broken Indian arrow in it, Survival International reported.
"This is extremely distressing news. There is no knowing how many tribal peoples the drug trade has wiped out in the past, but all possible measures should be taken to stop it happening again. The world’s attention should be on these uncontacted Indians, just as it was at the beginning of this year when they were first captured on film," Survival International Director Stephen Corry said in a statement.
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If these people were left to live their lives as usual, they would not suffer from disease, famine, or any other plights that plague so called westernized, colonized nations... In 10 years CNN will be reporting on these people like they report on the people in Africa... These people don't need white intervention, their village is probably sitting on a gold mine.
Somehow, everything that happens these days is inevitably, often forcibly, linked back to religion. These posts are a prime example. Is this really about using the term "Indian" (and I'm from India) or about Christianity? Hardly. This is about greed (traffickers), survival and a government's inability to protect those who require protection. Most importantly, it's living, breathing history, perhaps, lost forever.
You are all weirdos.
Why?
Better than being boring.
Everything we touch turns to $h!t.
Stop touching yourself.
I had a 17 legged 34 breasted 8 headed female alien living in my private back yard. I think the local drug dealers made her move because the were cutting through it through a hole in the fence. I wish I could find her. No one believes she existed.
Oh My God! You found my mother in law!
why are the red? I thought they were people in spiderman costumes.
Dammit, now all I can see are people in spiderman costumes.
thye painted themselves red (or black) to display aggression or hostility....
It's a tribe of spidermans and venoms that use to reside in brazil... this is where the spider that became 'radioactive' in the spiderman cartoon came from. look it up.
There are theories that the red and black paint are signs of aggressions – warnings to scare off intruders. If I happend on those guys all painted up, I'd be scared.
Exactly what i thought...and it proll is some dudes dressed up like spidey. Like they couldnt have taken a better pic then that with the cameras that are around today.
Ok now, that's just wrong. Damn funny... but wrong!
Right wing forces did whatever killing was needed as usual.
And as usual....they blame it on drugs, black people, Jews, Os-a ma B'L aden, Casey Anthony....to divert us from is really going on. Whatever is told by those in power is usually the opposite. For example, the civil rights march of 1963 was orchastratred to break up the black community just as was done in Africa.
It worked very well. Before then they had a community of shops, churches.....now we have Walmart and they have jail.
What planet are you on? Some people in the world (you) just need someone or something to be mad at and blame... Some people in the world (you) want to take no respnsibility for self.
I love conspiracy nutjobs. They're so much fun to laugh at!
Is this sarcasm or have you missed your meds today?
You say "Right Wings" lay blame, but you are blaming them? What?
Just need to pass a law that allows drug trafficker's to be shot on sight....
I know a boy that was kidnapped by the cartels and was forced to work for them or risk being killed and having his family killed if he didn't. He'd been rescued since, but do you think he should have been shot on sight?
I know exactly where they went...Ob ama tried to help them...now they're extinct...
That's baloney, Tony.
the world is ending!!!! Look at London, the middle east even wisconsin state fair! It's the planet of the apes for real!
Right...and the one in charge is the biggest ape of all!
If drugs were legal, you wouldn't have producers and traffickers sneaking through the jungle murdering everything they come across.
Wow, how insightful! Who do we contact to spread this idea? It must be heard!
Prohibition kills far more people than the drugs themselves.
It was a hoax you idiots.
Hmmm, so the 'tribe of Spiderman impersonators' is gaining credibility?
Big men, those Peruvian drug traffickers to bring down an innocent tribe with only bows, arrows and dart guns against AK47s and God knows what. Big men.
makes me sad and want to do some damage to the ones responsible, but that won';t do any good
Anybody who does drugs is who did this. They are the ones that support the drug suppliers and so they are creating the demand. Until you end the drug trade, which will never happen probably, we will, as human beings, continue to destroy things for profit.
Any new ideas on how to make people stop doing drugs penguin? Everything that has been tried so far has only made things worse.
Prohibition kills far more people than the drugs themselves.
some of these comments are just so rude and sad to hear from other humans in our society,.
actually it's disgusting. they don't know when to care and when not to .they don't know who is there enemy who is there friend.
they are just preoccupied with being selfish hearing the sound of the voice, and reflections of there words on the computer screen. Haters