Uncontacted tribe that came out of jungle attacks loggers with bows and arrows

The Indigenous tribe in the Peruvian Amazon that emerged from a rainforest weeks ago has reportedly attacked loggers in the area. The tribe that has never been contacted had come out amid fears of encroachments. A local Indigenous coalition says that the tribe attacked the loggers with bows and arrows in the Peruvian Amazon region. The tribe here is the Mashco Piro number a little over 750 and reside in the forests of southeast Peru, according to the human rights group Survival International.

The violence has been reported by the coalition FENAMAD to highlight how the government hasn't done enough to protect the tribe's territory from the extraction of forest resources. FENAMAD is a federation of tribes that live around the Madre de Dios River. The body claims that a member of the Mashco Piro tribe fired an arrow on July 27, seriously injuring at least one logger.

Notably, the area of the rainforest where the attack happened has been acknowledged by the government to be Mashco Piro territory, according to Survival International. FENAMAD has reached out to the Peruvian Ministry of Culture, urging “urgent intervention” in the matter and ensure that the people of the Mashco Piro remain unharmed.

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According to Survival International, Mashco Piro is the largest uncontacted tribe in the world. Despite being given territorial rights, logging operations are happening in the vicinity. When the tribe emerged from the rainforest in July, concerned groups raised alarm that this could lead to violence. They were seen on banks of the Las Piedras River in Monte Salvado located within the Madre de Dios province of Peru, bordering Bolivia and Brazil.

❗️ New & extraordinary footage released today show dozens of uncontacted Mashco Piro Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon, just a few miles from several logging companies.

Read the news: https://t.co/g9GrZlf3XB pic.twitter.com/fZv5rryzVp — Survival International (@Survival) July 16, 2024

Horrors committed on Mashco Piro people

The fear among the tribe is not unfounded. In the late 19th century, colonial rubber barons tortured their people in the western Amazon. they hunted them down and beat them to death, including committing other atrocities such as chaining them, robbing them, rape and murder. Thousands of them were even enslaved. Today they are living in fear of deforestation and illegal logging.

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Experts also fear that any kind of interaction between the tribe and the loggers can spread diseases among the tribal people and "wipe them out". Alfredo Vargas Pio, president of regional Indigenous organization FENAMAD, said in a press release, “This is irrefutable evidence that many Mashco Piro live in this area, which the government has not only failed to protect but actually sold off to logging companies."

The tribe had earlier emerged from the forest in 2011 and then again in 2013 to grab the attention of the world.