Brazilian+Amazon

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** The Brazilian federal police have launched a major operation to remove settlers and loggers from a remote area of the Amazon that experts believe is home to one of the world's most sperated Indian tribes.  **  **South American** peasants, farmers and native Indian tribes -- trapped in poverty and desperation by wealthy big corporations that bribe their governments to leave their lands and labor -- have been victims of a series of violent incidents recently in the borderlands of the Amazon rainforest.

They're landless peasants who have also suffered at the hands of the army. Just two months ago the Brazilian army was forced to have massacred dozens of poor village people in Rondonia, on Brazil's borders with Bolivia.

From the remote borderlands between Bolivia and Brazil, there have been bad wars in which indigenous people and landless farmers are being killed by land owning drug traffickers who promote the distant of the Amazon jungle, knowing the national governments which share an Amazon border don't have the resources or the manpower or the will to fight the cartels. Brazilian Amazon

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Local politicians and businessmen say it's unfair to give native Indian tribes which is less than one percent Brazil's total 160 million population so much land. Social activists say the real problem is that 10 percent of the population controls 80 percent of the land, leaving an estimated 2,000,000 families looking for somewhere to go. **
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=Region: Brazilian Amazon=

====** Wet tropical forests are the most species-rich boime. The diversity of plant species is the highest on Earth with some experts estimating that one square kilometer may contain over 75,000 types of trees and 150,000 species of higher plants. One square kilometer of Amazon rainforest can contain about 90,790 tonnes of living plants. The region is home to about 2.5 million insects. Covering an area larger the united states and containing the largest tropic forest in the world, the Amazon River Basin harbors nearly 1/3 of species and has about 1/4 fresh water. **====

[|Amazon River Dolpin] =Victims: Indigenous Indians=
 * Remaining Amazon Indians are very few in number a hundred thousand, perhaps. There are yet unassimilated Indian tribes, as the famous Yanomani, in the most inaccessible and unexplored Amazon regions as the Roraima, but they are just some thousands. They are indeed very few in number. Past slavery, wars and diseases have diminished dramatically the Indian’s populations. Such as the legendary Amazon woman, Indian tribes and Indian culture has little importance in today’s Amazon.

There is, however, another important category of Amazon population,around three million people, scattered over the immense jungle, aside from urban centers, with only episodic contacts with the outside world, without any links to legendary Amazon woman. They are the //caboclos//, the people of the forest: rubber-tappers, fishermen, and small farmers near the rivers’ margins. They are the true representatives of present Amazon culture. Their culture is made of practical information, rooted in our most remote capabilities: the capability of surviving through the knowing of the forest and their animals, secrets, beauties, dangers, cycles, means, and through the ability of creating instruments. Surviving in the forest, largely disconnect from other’s human groups, is something that demands a know-how we should not devaluate.**

=Persecutors: The Farmers and Ranchers= They plan to deforest the area for cattle, farming, urbanization, mining, and logging. Knowing that Indians have rights to this land, Farmers and Ranchers like Paulo César Quartiero have hired guns to take care of any Indians seen. Little is done by the government to stop them.**
 * These Farmers and Ranchers have had interests in the Amazon, ever since a highway was built near Indigenous tribes.

=Extermination= Indians they see. They try to hide piles of body's of them within mass graves, and at first the government let it happen. Even when arrested, criminals like Paulo César Quartiero walk free.
 * Farmers and Ranchers are exterminating Indigenous Amazonian Indians, they hire gunmen to shoot down any

It wasn't until protests by these Indians that the government were forced to recognize their rights to their land. Even when given order to remove themselves from Indian land, these persecutors still stay and illegally deforest the Amazon. Attacks on tribes continue to happen, and even those who help and stand up for them are threatened.

Entire tribes of these people are lost from the already unforgettable acts on them, only a few survivors exist and little is to be done to help them. One unknown tribe only has one survivor, given the nickname 'the man in the hole’ because he uses holes with spikes to catch animals, and even keeps a hole in his hut to hide himself and belongings from any invaders. The Akuntsu people only have six survivors left, and even more are being destroyed the same way and for the same reasons.

All these people ask of, are to be left alone to live traditionally as their ancestors. Many tribes are uncontacted because of this isolation from society, which is also why we will never know the true devastation of this genocide. Even members of the catholic church have been killed and threatened for helping these people, which shows just how merciless these attackers are.

The tribes aren't just being killed by bullets of course, disease and poison run rampant in the forest do to unsanetary conditions from what has already been set by deforesting and urbanizing the land. Polluted waters and more cause horrible effects on these tribes. Even though aid has started to come for these people, little is known how much it will help if at all. As long as the criminals aren't stopped, genocide will surely engulf all of the Brazilian Amazonian Tribes.**

[|Video Clips] =Aid= =Resolution=
 * Workers from the Catholic Church's Children's Pastoral Commission, in Brazil, will reinforce the efforts of the National Health Foundation Funasa to combat malnutrition in the Dourados indigenous territory, the most heavily populated Guarani-Kaiowá reservation in southern Mato Grosso do Sul, 220 kilometers southwest of Campo Grande.**
 * In what is being hailed as a victory for indigenous groups in the Brazilian Amazon, Brazil's Supreme Court sided with Indians from the Raposa Serra do Sol reservation in a 30 year land dispute with large scale farmers in the northern state of Roraima, near the border with Venezuela, reports the Associated Press.

The 10-1 decision puts the 4.2 million acre reserve under legal control of some 18,000 indigenous Amazonians including members of the Macuxi, Wapichana, Ingariko, Taurepang and Patamona tribes. Agricultural and industrial interests had sought to break up the reservation and exploit the land for farming, logging, and mining. **



