Brazil will investigate the genocide against the Yanomami ethnic group under the regime of Jair Bolsonaro
the police of Brazil opened an investigation folder for the crime of ‘genocide‘against ethnicity yanomami after a report revealed the death of almost a hundred children from malnutrition and other causes related to illegal mining.
Meanwhile, the government fired 43 militarys of the government agency of indigenous affairs (Funai).
As we reported in The Truth Newsthe minister Flavio Dino He said that yesterday he determined the opening of a new police investigation to find out (if there was) genocide.
Genocide against the Yanomami ethnic group
The Yanomami were neglected by the Bolsonaro government
The minister also added that there are very strong indications of refusal to nutritional and health care for said indigenous populations, so this was done with intent.
This information was provided by the leftist government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who revealed on Saturday that 99 Yanomami children under the age of 5 died last year in the largest indigenous reserve in Brazil from causes such as malnutrition, pneumonia and malaria, among others.
After a visit, the authorities found several cases of minors of this ethnic group with severe malnutrition, malaria, respiratory infections and other complications, for which the government declared a health emergency in said protected area.
The investigation pointed to actions and omissions by public officials and former health officials on Yanomami land, and will also include environmental crimes and the diversion of public resources, and the Brazilian president described this scenario as inhumane after visiting the state of Roraima.
The Yanomami Indigenous Land extends 96,000 kilometers in this state and Amazon, home to some 30,400 indigenous people of the ethnic group.
Meanwhile, due to the violence and problems that have occurred on the land, civil and indigenous associations pointed to former President Jair Bolsonaro as responsible, who defended mining and agricultural exploitation on indigenous lands and questioned the scope of protected lands in Brazil. .
Lula’s government, which has just started, decided to fire 43 soldiers who were appointed to the Brazilian government agency for indigenous affairs (Funai) after the Bolsonaro administration.
These dismissals, which occur among other dismissals made by Lula da Silva, reached soldiers who were appointed by a commissioner of the PF and who presided over Funai between July 2019 and December 2022, Marcelo Xavier, and during his management , Funai took measures that “delayed the demarcation of lands” and brought “instability” to the towns, according to a note from the Ministry of the new portfolio of Indigenous Peoples, led by Sonia Guajajara.
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Brazilian army should evict miners
The rivers of the Yanomami were contaminated with mercury
According to the Secretary of Indigenous Health, Weibe Tapeba, the Brazilian Army should evict the illegal gold miners, who caused malnutrition and hunger in the area of the Yanomami reserve near the border with Venezuela.
“It looks like a concentration camp,” said Weibe Tapeba, a doctor who was appointed to the post by the new Brazilian government.
He also said that at least 700 community members were starving and that health care is non-existent due to the presence of well-armed gold miners who keep medical workers away from the health post and do not let people bring in supplies of medicine and food. .
This is also because there has been an invasion of more than 20,000 wild gold miners who have polluted rivers with mercury and poisoned the fish that the Yanomami eat, according to Tapeba.
“The medical teams cannot get here because of the heavily armed bandits. This can only be solved by expelling the miners and that can only be done by the armed forces,” he said.
The Supreme Court of Brazil ordered the eviction of the miners, but the government of the far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro never complied, in addition to the fact that in the years of Bolsonaro’s government, 570 Yanomami children died of curable diseases, especially malnutrition but also malaria. , diarrhea and malformations that the mercury from the rivers has caused them.
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