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Judi Lynn

(160,516 posts)
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 01:10 AM Sep 2017

Authorities: Gold miners at a bar bragged about slaughtering members of a reclusive Brazilian tribe

Source: The Washington Post

The Washington Post
Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
6 hrs ago


The outside world might never have heard about the suspected massacre if not for some barroom boasting by a group of miners fresh from working an illegal gig in the Amazon jungle.

The garimpeiros had bragged that they’d come across members of a reclusive, uncontacted Amazonian tribe near Brazil’s border with Peru and Colombia, authorities say.

The tribe members were greater in number — there were as many as 10 — but the gold miners said they’d gotten the better of them and killed the entire lot, said Carla de Lello Lorenzi, communications officer for Survival International in Brazil.

The miners cut the tribe members’ bodies so that they wouldn’t float, Lorenzi said, then dropped them into the Jandiatuba River.

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/authorities-gold-miners-at-a-bar-bragged-about-slaughtering-members-of-a-reclusive-brazilian-tribe/ar-AArJeAo?li=BBnb7Kz

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Authorities: Gold miners at a bar bragged about slaughtering members of a reclusive Brazilian tribe (Original Post) Judi Lynn Sep 2017 OP
Disgusting! chwaliszewski Sep 2017 #1
May those scumbags rot in hell sakabatou Sep 2017 #2
My God! burrowowl Sep 2017 #3
K&R Solly Mack Sep 2017 #4
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