WORLD IN BRIEF : BRAZIL : Prospectors Agree to Leave Indian Land
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Thousands of gold prospectors agreed to leave the Amazon lands of the Yanomami tribe, the Brazilian justice minister said. Under the agreement, the 40,000 diggers will be transferred, along with their equipment, to three other areas of Roraima state. Human rights groups say that half of the 7,000 Yanomami in the region are sick with malaria, a disease brought by the prospectors, and hundreds have died.
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