Two loggers have been killed by bow and arrow after allegedly encroaching the land of the uncontacted Mashco Piro Indigenous tribe deep in Peru’s Amazon, according to a rights group.

The group, known as FENAMAD, defends the rights of Peru’s Indigenous peoples. It says tensions between loggers and Indigenous tribes are on the rise and more government protective action is needed.

Two other loggers in the attack were missing and another was injured, FENAMAD said, and rescue efforts were underway.

  • @vxx@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I don’t think it’s about disease. The loggers are killing the forest where they live in.

      • @vxx@lemmy.world
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        13 months ago

        I know, but I doubt that’s the reason they killed the loggers.

        Disease won’t be an issue if there’s no forest left for them to live in.

        • Todd Bonzalez
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          153 months ago

          Those are your priorities. They don’t have the full geopolitical picture. A few decades ago they got decimated by disease as soon as outsiders made contact. They remember.

          • @vxx@lemmy.world
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            33 months ago

            No, this is you mixing the Akuntsu with the Mashco Piro.

            Your story isn’t related to this tribe.