Massacre at the 11th Parallel

The Massacre at the 11th Parallel occurred in November 1963, when men hired by a rubber company killed 30 members of the indigenous Amazon group Cinta Larga and destroyed their village. Only two villagers survived.

The massacre was a part of the larger, ongoing genocide of indigenous peoples in Brazil.

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