Violence against Indigenous people is once again condemning Brazil before the United Nations mechanisms that deal with human rights abuses. This Monday, the Indigenous Missionary Council issued an “urgent appeal” to the international organization in the face of attacks on two Indigenous communities over the weekend.
An “urgent appeal” is a mechanism established to allow urgent complaints to be made in the event of imminent violence or an entrenched crisis. According to the new complaint, the UN rapporteurs and mechanisms of the international organization will demand a response from the Brazilian state.
According to the petition, the attacks were carried out by the police and private security guards. A native Guarani-Kaiowá, Vitor Fernandes, was killed in addition to “several injuries”. The attacks begin on June 23 and end only the next day.
According to the entity, the occupation did not have Justice’s permission. In the town of Guapo’y in the city of Amambai, the attacks were carried out by the Mato Grosso do Sul Military Police in addition to unidentified gunmen. It is in Dourados, in the Tekohá Kurupi/São Lucas region.
Eyewitnesses in the conflict area stated that police and gunmen “came ashore and opened fire despite the presence of the locals, then a helicopter came to finish it all off”.
According to the document obtained, UOLpolice prevented injured locals from receiving medical care at Amabaí hospital, claiming they were “too violent”.
On Saturday (25), three locals have been discharged from the hospital, but at least four are still at greater risk, including gunshot wounds to their heads and other vital parts of the body, according to information from Amambai District Hospital. One of the Indians is in the intensive care unit of Ponta Porã.
“Reports and footage of the attack show that the Prime Minister used vehicles, lethal and non-lethal weapons, and even a helicopter as a firing platform against indigenous families,” the petition said.
The document also attacks the reasoning offered by the State Department of Public Safety. According to the group, the argument “reproduces a range of prejudices against indigenous peoples and is not supported by the reality of the facts.
One would be that the indigenous community was involved in drug trafficking and was referred to as “Paraguayan”.
“Contrary to what the state said, this was not an action to combat drug trafficking, but rather an eviction lawsuit against the resumption of the Guarani and Kaiowá peoples – which could not happen – because there was no court order and due to the property disputes involved. Indigenous peoples are subject to federal jurisdiction, not state,” he said.
The movement to reclaim Guapo’y tekoha, an area adjacent to the Amambai Indigenous Reserve, began in late May when 17-year-old Guarani Kaiowá Alex Lopes was killed in an area, according to Kaiowá and Guarani. Coronel belonged to the Native Taquaperi in Sapucaia (AD), but was confiscated by the farmers.
“At the Amambai Conservation Area, most of Alex’s family, driven by the pain of loss and the need to reclaim traditional occupation zones, decided to retake Guapo’y tekoha two days after the murder. Initially deported in a police and agribusiness action. “They were attacked, but they returned on June 24, willing to occupy the farm’s grounds,” he said.
For the group, what happened at Mato Grosso do Sul mirrors the rest of the country. “Across Brazil, indigenous peoples mobilized and condemned this entire process of violence, which the Brazilian State itself promoted, victimizing them and their allies, just as in the recent case of indigenous scientist Bruno Pereira and journalist Dom Phillips. Tragedy Mato Grosso do “The events against Kaiowá in Sul and Guarani confirm this accusation.”
“Vitor Fernandes’ cries for justice are now added to the cries of Alex, Bruno and Dom, as well as dozens of Guarani and Kaiowá leaders who were assassinated,” the document says.
“The recent murder of local expert Bruno Pereira and journalist Dom Philips illustrates what Brazil has become, especially in the last four years,” the document said.
“The occupation of Indigenous territories and the escalation of violence has the complicity and encouragement of the Brazilian government, which has abandoned its policy of land conservation and fostered an environment in which life has been brutally destroyed,” he said.
“In the case of Bruno and Dom, it took a long time for the police forces to act. However, within just 48 hours, the same police hastily and incomprehensibly stated that there was no founding or organized crime behind these two murders. Ignoring the reports of the local indigenous organization regarding the situation in the area. “Impunity is the greatest security for those who kill in Brazil, and especially for those who ordered their killing,” he said.
source: Noticias
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