Rights group Forest Guardians says Brazil's amazonian Awa Guaja tribe is facing 'genocide' due to deforestation by illegal loggers. – EPA pic, May 19, 2020.
AN indigenous group in Brazil that traditionally has no contact with the outside world is suffering a “genocide” because of illegal loggers’ encroachment on their land, a rights group said yesterday. The Awa Guaja, a hunter-gatherer tribe of around 400 people in the Amazon rainforest, has lost huge tracts of land to deforestation in recent years, making them struggle to find food, said a statement from the indigenous rights group Forest Guardians.
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