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from The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018Uncontacted\u2019 Amazon Tribe Members Reported Killed in Brazil<\/h1>\n

By SHASTA DARLINGTON<\/span><\/p>\n

Members of an uncontacted tribe in Brazil in 2008. Indigenous groups in the Amazon are under increasing threat.<\/span> Credit<\/span>Funai\/Associated Press<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

S\u00c3O PAULO, Brazil \u2014 They were members of an uncontacted tribe gathering eggs along the river in a remote part of the Amazon. Then, it appears, they had the bad luck of running into gold miners.<\/p>\n

Now, federal prosecutors in Brazil have opened an investigation into the reported massacre of about 10 members of the tribe, the latest evidence that threats to endangered indigenous groups are on the rise in the country.<\/p>\n

The Brazilian agency on indigenous affairs, Funai, said it had lodged a complaint with the prosecutor\u2019s office in the state of Amazonas after the gold miners went to a bar near the border with Colombia, and bragged about the killings. They brandished a hand-carved paddle that they said had come from the tribe, the agency said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was crude bar talk,\u201d said Leila Silvia Burger Sotto-Maior, Funai\u2019s coordinator for uncontacted and recently contacted tribes. \u201cThey even bragged about cutting up the bodies and throwing them in the river.\u201d<\/p>\n

The miners, she said, claimed that \u201cthey had to kill them or be killed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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