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Updated Friday , Aug. 1 , at 9:30 a.m. ET .
An indigenous folk living near the Brazil - Peru boundary line may be face violent attacks from illegal loggers and drug vender who are exploit the densely afforest region , according to an advocacy group .
When young people from an indigenous tribe in Peru made contact with a settlement in Brazil, they reported violent attacks on elders in their community.
After years of exist in closing off from the outside macrocosm , several young member ofthis " uncontacted " triberecently go in a nearby settled community in Brazil . Through voice , they told harrowing news report about their encounter in the forests .
" The majority of old people were massacred by non - Indians in Peru , who shoot at them with small-arm and set fire to the houses of the uncontacted , " an interpretive program named Zé Correia reported throughSurvival International , a grouping that advocate for tribal people ’s right field . " They say that many sure-enough hoi polloi die , and that they buried three people in one tomb . They say that so many citizenry die that they could n’t bury them all and their corps were exhaust by vultures . " [ See Photos of the Uncontacted Amazon Tribes ]
In former June , a few members of the tribe emerged from the timberland andvoluntarily made contact with Ashaninka peoplein the village of Simpatia , in Brazil ’s Acre state . FUNAI , Brazil ’s indigenous matter department , released avideo clipof this initial middleman today ( July 31 ) that depict young tribe members switch banana tree and other goods .
FUNAI representative get a line that these the great unwashed had walked several days to Simpatia from their home sward within Peru ’s borders . Most of the tribe members appear healthy at first . But after several visits to Simpatia , someshowed flu - alike symptom . in the first place this calendar month , seven of them were treated for keen respiratory infection .
Brazilian officials have gleaned that this tribe has had sporadic encounters with non - Indians , which have lead in " dire losses , " said Fiona Watson , a researcher and field theatre director with Survival International . These indigenous people also had a gas pedal , some screws and other item that they may have purloined from non - Indians , perhaps from a logging camp , Watson told Live Science .
Her organization " is highly concerned about their health , about potential future attacks , and about the reports from the uncontacted that some of their community were killed at the hand of non - Indians and their homes set on fire , " Watson said in an emailed program line . She added that the organization is also apprehensive about the ability of the Brazilian and Peruvian regime to contain a futureepidemicin the region . Uncontacted hoi polloi are specially vulnerable to diseases , such as malaria and the grippe , against which they have no immunity .
" There is an urgent precedence to get trained specialist health team able to go in immediately when any uncontacted appear , and for far greater monitoring of and aegis of the territorial dominion of uncontacted tribes from invasions , " Watson enjoin .
Survival International has call on Peru to investigate the report card of a " massacre " and Brazil to apportion more funds for its uncontacted Indians whole to supervise the realm .
Agnes Portalewska , the communications director for the Cambridge , Massachusetts - based groupCultural Survival , said her establishment has been stick to the story and is concerned , peculiarly because these groups are vulnerable to disease from foreigner .
" Our concern is also with the fact that these incidents get more care in the medium , because of the ' exotic ' face of the history , and few others make it into the mainstream media , " Portalewska wrote in an email to Live Science . She noted that most group who are considered " uncontacted " subsist in voluntary isolation and have some , albeit limited , contact with other group for reasons of swop and marriage .
" Their right wing to inhabit in isolation should be respected and protected , and states have an debt instrument to observe , protect and fulfil these rights , " Portalewska say .
in the first place this week , the Inter - American Commission on Human Rights ( IACHR)released an extensive reporturging South American governments to preserve the right of endemic masses who last in voluntary isolation , and are at risk of confrontations with loggers , miners , petroleum and gas ship’s company , spiritual missionaries , ill-conceived ecotourism ventures , and drug vendor .
