Mongabay: Up to 80 people have been massacred by gold miners in the remote Venezuelan Amazon, according to reports received by the indigenous-rights group, Survival International. According to Reuters, the reports have prompted the Venezuelan government to investigate the alleged murders of the Yanomami isolated community.
According to three indigenous survivors, sometime in July a helicopter and what-are-believed to be illegal goldminers massacred the Yanomami community of Irotatheri.
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Survivors say gold miners in helicopter massacred village of 80 in Venezuelan Amazon
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 30th, 2012
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