Others are survivors of newer killings. The Amazonian folks often called the ‘Cinta Larga’ [‘wide belts’] suffered many vicious and grotesque assaults by the hands of Brazilian rubber tappers between the Nineteen Twenties and the Nineteen Sixties. One well-known incident, the 1963 ‘bloodbath of the eleventh parallel’, passed off within the headwaters of the Aripuanã river the place the agency of Arruda, Junqueira & Co was accumulating rubber.
The top of the corporate, Antonio Mascarenhas Junqueira, deliberate the bloodbath, deeming the Cinta Larga Indians to be in the best way of his industrial actions. ‘These Indians are parasites, they’re shameful. It’s time to complete them off, it’s time to eradicate these pests. Let’s liquidate these vagabonds.’
He employed a small airplane, from which sticks of dynamite have been hurled right into a Cinta Larga village beneath. Later, a few of the killers returned on foot to complete off the survivors – discovering a lady breastfeeding her little one, they shot the child’s head off, after which hung her the wrong way up and sliced her in half. The decide on the trial of one of many accused mentioned, ‘We’ve by no means listened to a case the place there was a lot violence, a lot ignominy, egoism and savagery and so little appreciation of human life.’
In 1975 one of many perpetrators, José Duarte de Prado, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, however was pardoned later that 12 months. He declared in the course of the trial, ‘It’s good to kill Indians – they’re lazy and treacherous.’
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