Babies and children of some Indian tribes in the Amazon are literally being buried alive, which is allegedly being covered up by certain authorities out of respect for tribal rituals.
Campaigners, known as the ‘Voice for Life’ are fighting to stop the infanticide, which usually occurs when a child is born with any form of deformity or disability. However, it also takes place if the baby is a girl or if the mother is unmarried.
Most are buried alive in shallow graves while others are suffocated with leaves, poisoned or simply abandoned in the jungle.
There has been several suicides within the tribes, as the parents of siblings of these babies would rather kill themselves than their children.
The video below is very disturbing and actually shows a burial, it may be their way of life but it is so wrong. The Brazilian politicians are now debating a Bill to outlaw infanticide to be known as Muwaji’s Law, after a mother who refused to bury her own baby alive.
2 comments so far
1 Rosanna Miller // Dec 2, 2009 at 3:42 am
Stupid!
2 Rosanna Miller // Dec 2, 2009 at 3:43 am
Wow!! This is unreal and sick!!