Survivors of the massacre, Marisa and Leida Yanomami, said in a rare
interview, ‘The gold-miners killed our brothers and sisters, and also
killed our father with machetes; some of them were killed with guns … We
can’t talk about it much because it makes us very sad. When we talk
about the massacre, we remember our father.’
Twenty years on, the Yanomami territories in Brazil and Venezuela continue to be invaded by illegal gold-miners
who pollute the rivers with mercury and destroy the forest, and attacks
on the Yanomami continue despite an operation by the Brazilian
authorities to remove the miners from Yanomami land.
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