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Saturday, November 19, 2016

Photos emerge of an uncontacted Amazon tribal community in Brazil threatened by illegal gold miners

Previous contact between outsiders and Yanomami has resulted in bloodshed. In 1993, a year after the Yanomami territory was officially recognised, 16 indigenous people, including a baby, were murdered in the village of HaximĂș by miners.
There have been numerous other incidents of indigious people being attacked by miners. Their operations have also caused a high rate of mercury poisoning among Yanomami and Yekuana tribes in the Amazon. 
Campaigners for the rights of the Yanomami have called for better policing of their territory. 

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