This Article utilizes the crime of genocide’s requisite elements to analyze the massacres of the Tagaeri and Taromenane Peoples. The Tagaeri and Taromenane are indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation in the Ecuadorian Amazon who are endangered by the oil and timber industries and the expansion of peasant settlements in their territory. This Article includes a brief history of the Tagaeri and Taromenane massacres and discusses the “intent to destroy a group” element of the crime of genocide as enumerated in international human rights jurisprudence. In concluding, the authors propose that the oil industry’s public and private actors’ direct control over the causes that led to the massacres could establish criminal liability for those actor