Amazon tribe massacre alleged in Venezuela

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Village of 80 people was firebombed from the air, say activists, by illegal gold miners based in neighbouring Brazil

A massacre of up to 80 Yanomami Indians has taken place in the Venezuelan state of Amazonas, according to claims emerging from the region, prompting the government to send in investigators.

Blame is being placed on illegal garimpeiro miners who cross the border from Brazil to prospect for gold and have clashed violently with Amazon tribes before. According to local testimonies an armed group flew over in a helicopter, opening fire with guns and launching explosives into Irotatheri settlement in the High Ocamo area. The village was home to about 80 people and only three had been accounted for as survivors, according to people from a neighbouring village and indigenous rights activists.

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Luis Shatiwe, a leader of the Yanomami group, told a Venezuelan newspaper that the survivors were hunters who had been out of the village at the time of the alleged attack. The hunters, he said, heard a helicopter and gunfire and said a communal hut in the village was destroyed by fire.

Survival International, a London-based organisation that seeks to protect native peoples, said in a statement that another Yanomami told the group that tribespeople had found bones and charred bodies in the village.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/30/amazon-tribe-massacre-alleged-venezuela

[No Elephants]

1. "Class warfare". It's not just a metaphor. It never was.

Recently about 8 striking miners in South Africa were killed by police. You can trace this stuff back through John D. Rockefeller to the slave trade and beyond.

But, no one called it "class warfare" until the 99% FINALLY started to object.

[Divine Discontent]

2. that's so sad. the greed that controls people who would do these things -aaarghhh!

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[Me.]

3. Kick