Venezuela: 'No evidence' of Yanomami killing

[Judi Lynn]

2 September 2012 Last updated at 18:01 ET
Venezuela: 'No evidence' of Yanomami killing

Venezuelan officials investigating a reported mass killing of Yanomami indigenous people say the have found no evidence of the alleged attack.

On Wednesday, a group representing the Yanomami had said that up to 80 of their members had been killed by illegal gold miners.

Minister of Indigenous Peoples Nicia Maldonado said a team had travelled to the area by helicopter.

She said they had failed to located the bodies witnesses had described finding.

"No evidence of any death was found," Ms Maldonado told state television.

More:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-19460663

[Judi Lynn]

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'No sign' of Amazon tribe slaughter
IAN JAMES
Last updated 08:57 03/09/2012

A team of Venezuelan officials who travelled to the Amazon to investigate a report of a mass killing in an indigenous community have found no evidence of any slaughter, government officials say.

Minister for Indigenous Peoples Nicia Maldonado said on Saturday (local time) the team travelled by helicopter to a remote jungle area where a Yanomami Indian group last week reported it had received word of a massacre of unknown proportions in July, with perhaps dozens slain by gold miners.

"No evidence of any death was found," Maldonado told state television. She said officials hadn't found any burned communal hut, which the indigenous group said had been reported by people who visited the community and talked with survivors.

Leaders of the Horonami Yanomami Organization, the community group that released the account last week, couldn't be reached for comment.

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/7599841/

[joshcryer]

2. Coverup.

[Bacchus4.0]

3. just like the refinery n/t

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