Health disaster strikes recently contacted Indians in Brazil
Health disaster strikes recently contacted Indians in Brazil
By agency reporter
15 Apr 2015
An Indian woman from Earth’s most threatened tribe is fighting for her life after being contacted in Brazil’s north-eastern Amazon rainforest.
Jakarewyj, a member of the Awá tribe, has contracted flu and a severe respiratory disease after her group was “surrounded by loggers” and contacted in late December 2014. Survival International, the global movement for the rights of tribal people, says that since then, her health has deteriorated rapidly and she is now emaciated and desperately ill.
According to other settled Awá in the village where Jakarewyj and Amakaria – the leader of the group – are living, Jakarewyj’s husband and other relatives previously died of flu in the forest.
“They were surrounded by loggers. We heard lots of noise from the chainsaws nearby and the tractors carving roads to transport the wood, and there were many trees marked for felling," a settled Awá told CIMI, a Brazilian NGO.
The Awá’s forest has been heavily invaded by loggers, ranchers and settlers since the Great Carajás Project – funded by the European Union and World Bank – was implemented in the 1980s.
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