Incredible Moment Isolated Tribe Met The Outside World For The First Time After Being ‘Forced Out Of Jungle By Cocaine Gangsters’!

The moment an Amazonian tribe made contact with the outside world has been captured in incredible video footage.

The clip, released by National Indian Foundation (Funai), shows the men wading through chest-high water in the river to accept bunches of bananas. Some of the men are seen holding rifles in one part of the footage. Members of the tribe were forced to seek help after being driven out of their homes on the Brazil-Peru border by the Envira River, apparently by Peruvian cocaine gangsters.

The tribal members, who had spent several days walking through the forest, said when they had been unable to bury some of their dead relatives, vultures had begun picking at the bodies. Five young men and two women were among those seeking help. They were found with bows and arrows and wearing loin cloths after approaching the local Ashaninka people in northern Brazil on June 29.

They communicated using a Panoan language dialect, which is unique to the Brazil-Peru border. Funai later intervened. The tribal members were treated for flu, which can sometimes be fatal as their immune systems are not used to new diseases.

Fiona Watson, the research director at tribal rights group Survival International, said: ‘What we think has happened, from piecing things together from what the uncontacted Indians have said to the interpreter, is they fled after their homes were set fire to and their relatives were shot at by white people in Peru.

It tallies with information we have from Peru that drug traffickers are planting coca plants, making cocaine and trafficking it. ‘Illegal logging is also happening in Peru and we believe this is pushing the people out. It is dismaying.’ Source: www.metro.co.uk