Murders of indigenous people up sharply in Brazil: report
Source: Yahoo! News / AFP
Brasília (AFP) - Murders of indigenous people rose sharply in Brazil last year with 138 Indians killed, a rights group said Friday, warning they were also committing suicide in growing numbers.
The numbers of Indians murdered increased by 42 percent in 2014 compared to 2013, the Indigenous Missionary Council, tied to the Catholic Church, said in its annual report.
The report denounced the lack of medical assistance and rights for the country's indigenous population, while recording 135 Indian suicides, the highest yearly number in the past 29 years.
"We cannot establish the causes but we can see the connections: there is lots of racism and rejection by the urban population," anthropologist Lucia Rangel from the missionary organization told AFP.
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