Indians massacre miners in Brazil

[Martin]

Porto Velho, Brazil ? Police began retrieving the bodies of 26 diamond prospectors killed in a mysterious clash with Indians in the Amazon jungle, and the state's governor said that the death toll could rise.
The bodies of another 30 prospectors could still be inside the reserve in northwest Brazil, also victims of the attack that saw Cinta Larga Indians apparently massacre dozens of prospectors on April 7.
...
In March 2002, authorities forcibly removed some 3,000 prospectors who had invaded the reservation. Two months earlier, police found the remains of seven people suspected to be prospectors and arrows nearby. In January 2003, federal police evicted some 5,000 prospectors.
Between 1999 and 2002, the bodies of 30 prospectors have been found inside the Roosevelt reserve, according to the Federal Indian Bureau.

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040421.wamaz0421/BNStory/Front/

 

[Ozoned]

Originally posted by: MartyTheManiak

Porto Velho, Brazil ? Police began retrieving the bodies of 26 diamond prospectors killed in a mysterious clash with Indians in the Amazon jungle, and the state's governor said that the death toll could rise.
The bodies of another 30 prospectors could still be inside the reserve in northwest Brazil, also victims of the attack that saw Cinta Larga Indians apparently massacre dozens of prospectors on April 7.
...
In March 2002, authorities forcibly removed some 3,000 prospectors who had invaded the reservation. Two months earlier, police found the remains of seven people suspected to be prospectors and arrows nearby. In January 2003, federal police evicted some 5,000 prospectors.
Between 1999 and 2002, the bodies of 30 prospectors have been found inside the Roosevelt reserve, according to the Federal Indian Bureau.

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040421.wamaz0421/BNStory/Front/

Definately WTF, but Ironic when you think of the expansion of the US in the 1800s.
Will Brazil follow our lead?

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: Ozoned

Originally posted by: MartyTheManiak

Porto Velho, Brazil ? Police began retrieving the bodies of 26 diamond prospectors killed in a mysterious clash with Indians in the Amazon jungle, and the state's governor said that the death toll could rise. The bodies of another 30 prospectors could still be inside the reserve in northwest Brazil, also victims of the attack that saw Cinta Larga Indians apparently massacre dozens of prospectors on April 7. ... In March 2002, authorities forcibly removed some 3,000 prospectors who had invaded the reservation. Two months earlier, police found the remains of seven people suspected to be prospectors and arrows nearby. In January 2003, federal police evicted some 5,000 prospectors. Between 1999 and 2002, the bodies of 30 prospectors have been found inside the Roosevelt reserve, according to the Federal Indian Bureau.

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040421.wamaz0421/BNStory/Front/

Definately WTF, but Ironic when you think of the expansion of the US in the 1800s. Will Brazil follow our lead?[/q] They have been for years -- taking Indian land, killing them, sometimes enslaving them to work in mines. History repeating itself all over again.

What is WTF, in a way, is that in the latter 1800's Brazil was roughly in the same position as the USA, a vast repository of land and natural resources calling out to the hardy pioneer and entrepeneur. I don't think many realize how similar the two countries' positions were back then. We took off economically and socially, they didn't. Your theory as to why here.

 

[Ozoned]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: Ozoned

Originally posted by: MartyTheManiak

Porto Velho, Brazil ? Police began retrieving the bodies of 26 diamond prospectors killed in a mysterious clash with Indians in the Amazon jungle, and the state's governor said that the death toll could rise. The bodies of another 30 prospectors could still be inside the reserve in northwest Brazil, also victims of the attack that saw Cinta Larga Indians apparently massacre dozens of prospectors on April 7. ... In March 2002, authorities forcibly removed some 3,000 prospectors who had invaded the reservation. Two months earlier, police found the remains of seven people suspected to be prospectors and arrows nearby. In January 2003, federal police evicted some 5,000 prospectors. Between 1999 and 2002, the bodies of 30 prospectors have been found inside the Roosevelt reserve, according to the Federal Indian Bureau.

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040421.wamaz0421/BNStory/Front/

Definately WTF, but Ironic when you think of the expansion of the US in the 1800s. Will Brazil follow our lead?[/q] They have been for years -- taking Indian land, killing them, sometimes enslaving them to work in mines.  History repeating itself all over again.

What is WTF, in a way, is that in the latter 1800's Brazil was roughly in the same position as the USA, a vast repository of land and natural resources calling out to the hardy pioneer and entrepeneur.  I don't think many realize how similar the two countries' positions were back then. We took off economically and socially, they didn't.  Your theory as to why here.

Capitalism....

 

[wkabel23]

Hopefully Brazilian officials can learn from history

IMO, the prospectors don't deserve to die but they are playing with fire and they should not intrude on the reservations. However, if some chiefs are selling mining rights to the reservations, the Brazilian govt. should definitely step in and put and end to this practice.

 

[Red Dawn]

I read the Indians masacred them after the Miners attecked the Indians first.