The massacre early in August of about 75 native people in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest is being blamed on illegal miners.
News reports say members of a band of Yanomami Indians in northern Brazil were attacked on their reserve and their lodges burned. The men were shot and the women and children slaughtered with machetes.
The Brazilian government has been trying since at least 1990 to chase the illegal miners from the region.
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