Film on infanticide stokes Brazil debate on indigenous rights

AFP, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
Sunday, May 24, 2009,

A shocking video depicting infanticide among Amazon tribes has revived a debate in Brazil about whether the practice should be criminalized, or respected as a traditional belief.

The debate was given new vigor by the emergence of the video, which was posted online by the Hakani Campaign, an organization opposed to the practice.

The live burial depicted in the Hakani video is one of several ways infanticide is practiced among indigenous tribes, who also differ in their reasons for the tradition. the rest