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The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) was founded in 1968 in response to the genocide of indigenous peoples in Brazil and Paraguay, and in 1969 Survival International was founded in London as a response to the atrocities, theft of land and genocide occurring in the Brazilian Amazon.
The Haximu massacre, also known as the Yanomami massacre, was an armed conflict in Brazil in 1993. The conflict occurred just outside Haximu, Brazil, near the Venezuelan border, beginning in mid-June [1] or July [2] of 1993. Sixteen [1] Yanomami people were killed by a group of garimpeiros, or gold miners who mine the land illegally.
The Massacre at the 11th Parallel occurred in November 1963, [1] when men hired by a rubber company killed 30 members of the indigenous Amazon group Cinta Larga and destroyed their village. [2] Only two villagers survived. [2] The massacre was a part of the larger, ongoing genocide of indigenous peoples in Brazil.
Scholarship varies on the definition of genocide employed when analysing whether events are genocidal in nature. [2] The United Nations Genocide Convention, not always employed, defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or ...
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Indigenous people from nine villages in Brazil's Yanomami territory were found to be contaminated by mercury, with those living closer to illegal gold mining sites presenting higher levels of ...
The genocide of indigenous peoples, colonial genocide, [1] or settler genocide [2] [3] [note 1] is the elimination of indigenous peoples as a part of the process of colonialism. [note 2] According to certain genocide experts, including Raphael Lemkin – the individual who coined the term genocide – colonialism is intimately connected with ...
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday vowed a federal response after a conflict between Indigenous people and farmers over land in southern Bahia led to the shooting death of a ...