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Caracas, April 15 (AP) .-The General Prosecutor's Office investigates the death of four adults and two adolescents yanomamis, an etnia placed in the remote border with Brazil, they informed on Thursday the judicial Venezuelan authorities.
The district attorneys try to establish penal responsibilities for the death of three women and a man, that fung?a as chief of the community of Momoy, located in the Saw of Parima, in the east of the river Orinoco, to the south end of Venezuela and next to the border with Brazil.
The inquiries point that these four persons died for drinking water contaminated by illegal miners, who use mercury to separate the gold of the rocks.
Two adolescents, meanwhile, they were murdered supposedly by not identified aggressors who sprayed them with a poisonous substance, according to a bulletin spread Thursday by the Public Department.
The investigators, who have met with members of the tribe across an interpreter, have not determined exactly when the young people was attacked or when the adults died.
The yanomamis are one of the indigenous etnias with less contact with the modern world.
The principal district attorney of the state of the Amazon, Joselyn Mata, said by phone that the district attorneys cannot offer any other detail until the investigations have advanced.
Fiona Watson, director of investigation and field of Survival Internacional, organization that defends the rights of the tribal peoples on a global scale, declared that it did not have knowledge of the recent deaths between the yanomamis but it indicated that the impact of the golden miners in this indigenous people ? is becoming very serious ?.
An every time major number of ? Brazilian miners it is employed at the frontier zone and, possibly, also at Venezuela ?, for what also it increases the number of strangers that contacts the tribe, expressed the activist in an e-mail.
International Survival urges the Venezuelan authorities to take measures to prevent the miners from entering territories of the tribe, he added.
It is believed that approximately 28.000 persons or more they live in the communities yanomamis, that they include the south of Venezuela and the north of Brazil.
His origins go back to approximately 50.000 years and according to some anthropologists they are some of the last traces of the primitive peoples of the world. They support his language and traditions as the use of wooden ornaments in his nostril and funeral rites where they consume the ashes of his deceased diluted in a drink done by means of banana.
In many cases, they have fallen ill after contact with strangers.
Neris Villalobos, a doctor epidemi?logo of the government in the region, said that six yanomamis - including five children and an adult - died in October because of respiratory illnesses that might include the porcine flu, but there were no samples of textile to confirm them. After these deaths, at least another two persons yanomamis gave positive for porcine flu but they recovered later.
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The district attorneys try to establish penal responsibilities for the death of three women and a man, that fung?a as chief of the community of Momoy, located in the Saw of Parima, in the east of the river Orinoco, to the south end of Venezuela and next to the border with Brazil.
The inquiries point that these four persons died for drinking water contaminated by illegal miners, who use mercury to separate the gold of the rocks.
Two adolescents, meanwhile, they were murdered supposedly by not identified aggressors who sprayed them with a poisonous substance, according to a bulletin spread Thursday by the Public Department.
The investigators, who have met with members of the tribe across an interpreter, have not determined exactly when the young people was attacked or when the adults died.
The yanomamis are one of the indigenous etnias with less contact with the modern world.
The principal district attorney of the state of the Amazon, Joselyn Mata, said by phone that the district attorneys cannot offer any other detail until the investigations have advanced.
Fiona Watson, director of investigation and field of Survival Internacional, organization that defends the rights of the tribal peoples on a global scale, declared that it did not have knowledge of the recent deaths between the yanomamis but it indicated that the impact of the golden miners in this indigenous people ? is becoming very serious ?.
An every time major number of ? Brazilian miners it is employed at the frontier zone and, possibly, also at Venezuela ?, for what also it increases the number of strangers that contacts the tribe, expressed the activist in an e-mail.
International Survival urges the Venezuelan authorities to take measures to prevent the miners from entering territories of the tribe, he added.
It is believed that approximately 28.000 persons or more they live in the communities yanomamis, that they include the south of Venezuela and the north of Brazil.
His origins go back to approximately 50.000 years and according to some anthropologists they are some of the last traces of the primitive peoples of the world. They support his language and traditions as the use of wooden ornaments in his nostril and funeral rites where they consume the ashes of his deceased diluted in a drink done by means of banana.
In many cases, they have fallen ill after contact with strangers.
Neris Villalobos, a doctor epidemi?logo of the government in the region, said that six yanomamis - including five children and an adult - died in October because of respiratory illnesses that might include the porcine flu, but there were no samples of textile to confirm them. After these deaths, at least another two persons yanomamis gave positive for porcine flu but they recovered later.
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