VICTIMS OF GENOCIDE
The extermination of Indians in Brazil has reached such proportions in recent years that even the dictatorial Costa e Silva regime finally felt conpelled to institute a face-saving investigation and abolish its Indian Protection Service, officials of which were charged with "all the crimes in the book."
According to Jader Figueiredo, head of an inquiry commission interviewed by Associated Press in mid-March, "From theft to rape, from land stealing to assassination, from bribery to Middle Ages torture, every crime has been committed."
Whites exterminated entire tribes to get government title to their land. For example, the Patachos were wiped out with smallpox inoculations. Dynamite was dropped on the Cint-Largas and those who fled were machine-gunned from the planes.