Without permission from the Denver Post, Thursday, August 19,1993.
Miners Kill 14 Indians in Amazon Reservation
By the Associated Press
Brasilia, Brazil - Gold miners in the northwest Amazon killed 14
Yanomami Indians, including seven children and five women, the
government said yesterday.
The National Indian Foundation said a team of investigators
found the bodies at their remote Homoxi-Itu village near Brazil's
border with Venezuela. The seven children were decapitated, said
Indian affairs officers in Boa Vista, 2,900 miles northwest of
Brasilia.
News of the massacre came from survivors who fled the village
and took refuge at government outposts, the foundation said.
Last week, the foundation said, prospectors had killed five
other Yanomami in late July on the tribe's 37,000-square-mile
reservation. About 40,000 miners entered the traditional territory
of the Yanomami, the worlds largest Stone Age tribe, in 1987 after
government studies detected large amounts of gold, diamonds,
uranium and other minerals in the region. Soldiers have tried to
drive the miners from the reservation, created in 1991. About 3,000
miners reportedly still remain.
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[ I hope that someone with more details will post a better article
than this one. I'd also appreciate any posts with ideas on how we
can protect the Yanomami. -Michele]
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Michele Lord + If you have come here to help me,
+ you are wasting your time.....
+ But if you have come because
+ your liberation is bound up with mine,
milo@scicom.alphacdc.com + then let us work together.
Aboriginal Woman
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