After two Huaorani indians were murdered on March 5, allegedly by members of an uncontacted Huaorani tribe the Tagaeri, Ecuador’s government is seeking resolutions to the tribal conflict.

Oscar Bonilla, a deputy minister with the Ministry of the Interior, says that these types of attacks are part of a spiral of retribution that is hard to overcome with the legal strategies used in the city of the countryside. Essentially: jungle rules are different.

“We need to create public policy that relates to these communities. We need to create a link of contact with the Tagaeri and Taromenane (the other uncontacted Huaorani tribe still living a nomadic life in Ecuador’s Amazon region).”

Milagros Aguirre, who works at a non-profit in the Amazon region, says Ecuadorian society doesn’t know how to handle the Tageir and Taromenane.

“Every time there is a death, the reaction has always been the same: we are taken by surprise. State organisms snap into action. But there’s still no policy for dealing with these issues.” And the violence continues.

On March 5, Tagaeri indians are thought to have speared the Huaoranis Ompure and his wife Buganey. This worsened the already weak connections the two nomadic tribes had with other Huaorani tribespeople.

According to Aguirre, Ompure was one of the only people who still had a relationship with the Taromenane tribe.