‘Uncontacted’ Amazon Tribe Members Are Reported Killed in Brazil<br />"It’s not something that was happening before." Survival International, a global indigenous rights group, warned<br />that given the small sizes of the uncontacted Amazon tribes, this latest episode could mean that a significant percentage of a remote ethnic group was wiped out.<br />Activists worry that the country’s indigenous groups — and especially the uncontacted tribes — are the most vulnerable when it comes to land disputes.<br />Sarah Shenker said that If the investigation confirms the reports, it will be yet another genocidal massacre resulting directly<br />from the Brazilian government’s failure to protect isolated tribes — something that is guaranteed in the Constitution,<br />He said the episode was alleged to have occurred in the Javari Valley — the second-largest indigenous reserve in Brazil — in the remote west.<br />With land disputes on the rise in many remote areas of Brazil, indigenous groups, rural workers and land activists have all been targeted by violence.<br />Leila Silvia Burger said that It was crude bar talk,
