Miners' attack on Yanomami Amazon tribe 'kills dozens' (BBC)

[Judi Lynn]

6. Amazon tribesmen 'massacred by Venezuela miners'

Amazon tribesmen 'massacred by Venezuela miners'
30 Aug 2012 06:58 - Ian James

Prosecutors have been appointed to investigate after leaders of the indigenous group alerted them to the account, Venezuela's Public Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

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He and others from the Yanomami organisation met with military officials and prosecutors earlier this week in the south town of Puerto Ayacucho to ask that they travel to the area.

The account of villagers from Hokomawe who saw the victims' remains and talked with the three survivors was later relayed to others in the village of Momoi after days of walking through the forest, Ahiwei said. Others then took the news to the larger community of Parima.

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He said that according to the survivors' account, the miners attacked because some in the community had been "rescuing Yanomami women" from miners.

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