Since a month back live Steve Campbell from the Greene Baptist Church in Maine in an area in the south of the Amazon, where around 100 tribes from Hi-Merimãfolket live. Hi-Merimã people living in isolation along the Piranhasfloden and has previously rejected all contact with the outside world.
the brazilian government’s Funai, which has responsibility for issues concerning indigenous peoples, to Campbell can spread disease and that he may be prosecuted for genocide, writes the news agency Reuters.
Campbell is now on its way to become the subject of a police investigation since Funai had asked the federal police to investigate the case, writes the brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo.
the missionary has had contact with another indigenous people, Jamamadifolket which he claims asked him to teach them how a gps navigator works.
– If it can be confirmed in the investigation that he by utilizing his contacts with the other tribes tried to get in touch with Hi-Merimãstammen, then he can be prosecuted for genocide by deliberately putting the strain safety and lives in danger, ” says Bruno Pereira at the Funai.
it is with someone in the trunk infected by the flu to the whole tribe will be wiped out. According to the Funai has several native people in Brazil have lost up to two-thirds of its members then they were exposed to infections from visitors.
It is unclear how many people Hi-Merimãstammen consists of but in the 1940s uppskatttades consist of about 1,000 people, writes the Daily Mail.
Steve Campbell and his family have lived in the area since 1963 and has come to influence many of the tribes there when he learned Jamamadifolkets language. The family has an informal permission to stay and reside in an area in a village called San Francisco – something that Steve Campbell is now violated, writes Folha de S. Paulo.
the site is working also to Steve Campbell’s wife with Jamamadifolket. Another of baptiskyrkans members are working to translate the bible into one of the naturfolkens language.
the Criticism of Steve Campbell is fierce from the groups involved in the naturfolkens future.
– globally came into force christian americans must be stopped from the primitive operation is to contact the previously non-contacted tribes, ” says Stephen Corry, director of Survival International, which works for naturfolkens rights.
two months ago killed an american missionary, 27-year-old John Allen Chau, when he tried to land in a protected island in the Indian ocean. Stamfolket on the North Sentinel, have lived there for 30,000 years and even lacks the immune system against several of the diseases that are common among the world population.