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| Yanomami Woman
©Victor Englebert/Survival |
Yanomami
health workers have written to the Ministers of Justice and
Environment demanding immediate measures to expel invading goldminers
from their land.
In the letter they warn that mining will bring 'social
chaos' and massive health problems. They accuse the authorities of
ignoring serious problems, and warn that they face a situation
similar to the invasion of the 1980s, when the Yanomami population
plummeted by one fifth as hundreds died from diseases transmitted by
the goldminers.
Read their letter here.
