Comments on: Horrific treatment of Amazon Indians exposed 100 years ago today

By: Valenti

Valenti — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:17:41 +0000

Anytime the US gets involved in anything, the end result is accusing of them of interfering…

No one else in the world will help, because they won’t profit from it. Very Sad.

By: AKN8TV

AKN8TV — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:25:59 +0000

Its still happening in the USA in Alaska they just cant shoot us now to take our lands. We have been educating our children to fight them in courts and we are winning some.

By: Paka

Paka — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:55:14 +0000

My father is from the Peruvian Amazon rainforest and he used to tell us horrible stories about the “rubber boom in the Peruvian jungle.” How these “rubber kings” became rich through the free labor of the Indians. One of those stories stuck with me forever: When it was payday, the “rubber kings” ordered to take the Indians to the deepest areas of the rainforest, rounded them up and shoot them to death. Their bodies were left abandoned in the jungle for the animals; and then the “rubber kings” were going back to look for more Indians to continue the work. Sorry, I can’t keep writing (it makes me sick!) That’s one of the reasons why all the foreign “investors” or companies love to come to make “business” in the Peruvian jungle or Andes, because they have free labor and not labor laws to protect their workers; with the “blessing” of the government and polititians because they are completely indifferent to the life of Indians. To them their lives are worthless.

By: Juancho

Juancho — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:45:48 +0000

Roger Casement was well-chosen for the assignment, having been instrumental in bringing the world’s attention on to the similar horrors of the rubber enterprises in the Belgian Congo in 1903.

By: Junior

Junior — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:13:49 +0000

All throughout history man has always been oppressive and abusive to those that are weaker or in some sort of disadvantage

By: jason

jason — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:38:31 +0000

It’s always the indigenous peoples that get a raw deal. Look what happened in the United States Of America a couple of hundred years ago and still continues today. I say it’s just that the borders are being breached because of what our forefathers did to the Indians. God bless them and may God rest their souls.