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September 12, 2017

Brazil: Gold Miners Reportedly Murdered & Dismembered Members of Indigenous Tribe
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In Brazil, authorities are investigating reports that gold miners
brutally murdered about 10 indigenous people last month and later
bragged about dismembering their bodies. The alleged murders occurred in
the Amazon's Javari Valley, Brazil's second-largest indigenous reserve.
The victims were members of an uncontacted tribe. Brazilian President
Michel Temer has close ties to the mining industry, and earlier this
year he issued a decree opening up a wide swath of the Amazon to mining
and extraction. He's also cut funding for government agencies that work
to protect indigenous groups from attacks by miners and loggers.


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