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Brit TV company blamed for Peruvian tribal deaths

Indigenous tribes in southeastern Peru are demanding film and TV crews be banned from their territories around the Madre de Dios river after attributing the deaths of four members of the Matsigenka tribe to flu carried by a visiting British TV production company. Local communities insist a researcher from London-based Cicada …

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Ferry Boat

At least they weren't visited by Canadians

They'd have been clubbed to death instead of just getting flu.

Tom Turck

3 childern dead for info-porn

3 childern dead all for the sake of info-porn. Nice of Cicada to disregard the advice of the scholars and professionals. Good to know Cicada is also an authority on contagious diseases. They have video cameras they must know everything.

fishman

Blame Canada

Blame Canada.

Neill

Haircut

After being introduced to the west by a TV researcher, could this now be the first tribe in the world to sport Nathan Barley haircuts and skinny black jeans?

Andrew Moore
Coat

Maybe the company will now change their name...

...to Sick-Harder

rains
Stop

promoting an adventure eco-tourist genocide

not content with stirring it all up and promoting an adventure eco-tourist genocide for the last few remaining & preferring isolation aboriginal tribes, the destructive and pervasive media drones, film our own demise as they feed the asleep tv viewers, what a hell we've made on earth.

rains

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The Forum for 'friends of Peoples close to Nature' is a movement of

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and their culture, in particular hunter-gatherers. These were the

first and are the last societies on earth to have a non-exploitative

relationship with the natural word. Our task is to help them

preserve their unique cultures from enforced assimilation,

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b166er

Pity

Wouldn't it have been ironic, if those same researchers brought back a disease that wiped out the same percentage of our world.

I hope the production company gets shafted for 'skipping' the health screening routine.

Anonymous Coward
Stop

Everybody who's taking the michael....

...what the hell, guys? People have died here! How cold can you be?

I guess it's okay as long as it's a bunch of brown people somewhere far away.

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