Several people were killed in demonstrations along the Venezuelan border with Brazil in February. Among those killed were members of the Pemon Indians who attempted to block Venezuelan troops from entering their lands. The Pemon live in a wild and remote area near what may have been the site of the fictional story The Lost World by Arthur Conan-Doyle. The advocacy director of the tribal rights organization Survival International is Fiona Watson. She says the deaths of the lightly armed indigenous people has received almost no coverage in the world's media.