Debate is still raging about the documentary depicting a re-enactment of infanticide that is practised by some Amazon Tribes in Brazil. There seems to be a few thoughts on the documentary and the idea of infanticide being practiced:
- We should ignore it and leave it alone since it isn’t too widely spread among the tribes and it’s their tradition to kill unwanted babies, so we shouldn’t interfere (Survivor International, Brazil’s National Foundation for Indians (FUNAI)
- It should be stopped, as many tribes have already done, and the killing of babies should be made illegal, even among the Indigenous Brazilian Amazonian tribes (Hakani Organization, various law makers in Brazil, United Nations Human Rights, etc.)
The documentary was filmed and edited by members or Youth With A Mission (YWAM).
You can read a bit more about the debate here.
Hakani is not fiction, is real, dennounces a sad fact that happens several times along the years in the wilderness of Brazilian forests. The cry of the blood of innocent children left to die in the middle of the jungle, the cry of children that are buried alive was materialized at HAKANI film, an excellent docudrama ( Documentary and Drama )Hakani is a cry for life. Hakani today is a lovely and lively girl, a miracle, a gift from God, an example of what humans can do for other human beings. May God have mercy on Survival International and on people that want to keep indian tribes isolated as animals. There is no record in history of human groups that do want to keep themselves isolated from others, they have the right to know and to make their own choices.
I hope that I did not in any way make it seem like I was saying that the Hakani documentary wasn’t fact, I was only saying that in the documentary they used a re-enactment instead of an actual killing of an innocent child. I agree with your statement about the rights of the tribes to choose if they have contact, but also the right of the innocent children to life.
Thank you for your comment.