The man who died in Brazil had lived 26 years without human contact.
of Brazil The “loneliest man in the world”, who became a symbol of the genocide of indigenous peoples, has died in the state of Rondônia, said a campaigner for the cause of indigenous peoples Survival International.
The man is estimated to have been around 60 years old. He lived alone in the jungle for 26 years.
The man was found in a hammock outside his lodge on August 23. No signs of violence were found on the bodies.
He had covered himself with feathers, apparently with a premonition that he was going to die. It was estimated that the man had been dead for 40–50 days.
Man belonged to a small people living in Rondônia, in the Tanaru indigenous region on the Bolivian border, whose members never had contact with the main population of Brazil. Almost nothing is known about the nation. Their language disappeared with its last member.
“No outsider knew the man’s name or much else about his people – and with him the genocide has now been brought to an end. Because that’s what genocide was all about – a deliberate attempt by farmers greedy for land and wealth to wipe out an entire people,” wrote Survival International’s director of research Fiona Watson.
Major some of the man’s people were apparently murdered in the 1970s. A few people remained. The last six members of the nation were murdered by farmers in 1996.
After that, the man lived alone in the forest. The man never went outside his forest.
Researchers from Brazil’s indigenous government Funai and Survival International watched the man from a distance and sometimes left him food supplies. The man never approached them. In 2018, about a man a video was shotwhich spread widely.
The man hunted, ate fruit and cultivated corn and cassava.
The man was also called the Pitman because he dug deep holes in the jungle. Some pits seem to have been traps for prey animals, others hiding places.
of Brazil about 240 indigenous peoples live in the jungles, and according to Funai, more than a hundred of them live without contact with the mainstream population.
There are seven protected areas in Brazil where non-natives are not allowed to move. The area of Rondônia is approximately 8,000 hectares in size. President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro has long promised to end protected areas so that they could be cleared for agricultural use.
Farmers living near protected areas often attack peoples in order to exploit the protected areas. It is known that the man was attacked at least in 2009.
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