Uncontacted Indians ‘killed by loggers’
Uncontacted Indians in Peru are being killed and having their houses burned to the ground by illegal loggers, according to a pan-South American Indigenous group.
Uncontacted Indians in Peru are being killed and having their houses burned to the ground by illegal loggers, according to a pan-South American Indigenous group.
Lawyers acting for companies wanting to drill for oil on the land of uncontacted Indians have denied that any isolated Indians live in the area.
The British newspaper The Observer claimed on 22 June that it has now ‘emerged’ that the uncontacted tribe whose photos received worldwide publicity were neither ‘lost’, nor 'undiscovered' nor ‘unknown’.
Spurred into action by a wave of international protest, a Peruvian government team is currently in a remote part of the Amazon investigating the plight of uncontacted Indians.
Peru’s Amazon Indian organisation has urged the Peruvian government not to ‘wipe out uncontacted tribes’ living in the remote Peruvian rainforest.
Photographs published last week of an uncontacted tribe in Brazil near the Peruvian border have provoked public outrage, with over 1,300 people writing letters to Peru’s government to demand an end to illegal logging.
An Indigenous federation that defends uncontacted tribes across South America has demanded that Peru’s government respects the rights and lives of uncontacted Indians living in the remote Peruvian rainforest.
Peru’s government has announced plans to investigate the plight of uncontacted Indians living in the remote Peruvian Amazon.