http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.4283875/miners-who-boasted-about-killing-uncontacted-amazon-tribe-members-now-under-investigation-1.4284677In honor of the new news forum, I decided to go ahead and make a thread about this, since this is the article I had been reading when I decided to suggest a news forum.
Anyway, I've heard about this sort of thing since a long time ago, and from the discussion I've read on this particular incident, it seems that this sort of thing has been going on for a long time and still is. Prejudice against indigenous people is also pretty severe in Brazil. It makes me wonder how often shit like this happens and we don't hear about it, especially considering the only reason these guys were even found out is because they drunkenly bragged about it.
Mining, lumber, and other operations often go on in the forest, and since there's precious little oversight on this shit way out in undeveloped forests, workers often engage in violence against indigenous tribes, since they can be very territorial and sometimes attack people who enter their territory. It's really fucked up, and it's rather concerning how guys who would probably otherwise seem pretty normal can commit such brutal acts. They killed around 10 people and chopped their fucking bodies up. I mean, that's not something most people would be able to do, I'd think, and a large part of the problem is that in looking down on these tribes, they are often seen as less than human.
Hopefully, the Indigenous Affairs Agency can get some more funding to get more involved with this issue, but sadly I can't help but feel like this will just be forgotten rather quickly. These operations are usually way out from civilization, so I don't really know how they could go about putting a serious dent in this sort of thing, especially since not all the operations where this sort of thing may occur are legal.
