The Haximu massacre, also known as the Yanomami massacre, was an armed conflict in Brazil in 1993. The conflict occurred just outside Haximu, Brazil, near the Venezuelan border, beginning in mid-June[1] or July[2] of 1993. Sixteen[1] Yanomami people were killed by a group of garimpeiros, or gold miners who mine the land illegally.
In the first attack, the garimpeiros killed four or five young men of the Yanomami Haximu-teri. In response, the natives made two raids against the miners, killing at least two of them and wounding two more.[1] Following this raid, the garimpeiros attacked again, killing about 12 Yanomami (almost all of them elderly, youths or infants)[1] and burned down the Haximu village.[2]