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RSS FeedsDefending their forest home
(World News Brazil)

 
 

11 december 2017 00:24:38

 
Defending their forest home
(World News Brazil)
 


THEY appear silently, seemingly from nowhere: a dozen figures, naked except for bright red loincloths, blocking the dirt road. These are the Waiapi, an ancient tribe living in BrazilŽs Amazon rainforest but now fearing invasion by international mining companies. Leading AFP reporters to a tiny settlement of palm-thatched huts hidden in foliage, the tribesmen streaked in red and black dye vow to defend their territory. They brandish two-metre-long bows and arrows to reinforce the point. `WeŽll keep fighting,` says Tapayona Waiapi, 36, in the settlement called Pinoty. `When the companies come weŽll keep resisting. If the Brazilian government sends soldiers to kill people, weŽll keep resisting...


 
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