In the Amazon, the offensive by gold miners in protected indigenous territories

2021-07-23T14:55:23.842Z

REPORT - These illegal operators have been on the rise since the election of Jair Bolsonaro. Passing through Boa Vista, capital of the state of Roraima in the Amazon, to stock up on medicines, hammocks and other accessories of civilization, a young indigenous Yanomami was tasked with relaying an urgent message to the local authorities: a group of Illegal gold miners came to settle near his village, polluting its rivers and intimidating its inhabitants. His people threaten to take up arms.

Passing through Boa Vista, capital of the state of Roraima in the Amazon, to stock up on medicines, hammocks and other accessories of civilization, a young indigenous Yanomami was tasked with relaying an urgent message to the local authorities: a group of Illegal gold miners came to settle near his village, polluting its rivers and intimidating its inhabitants.

His people threaten to take up arms.

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The invaders arrived by dozens on these protected indigenous lands, armed and threatening.

Jairo Yanomami lives in Komomasipe, in the province of Parafuri, about ten days by boat from Boa Vista, or in his case, three hours aboard a small propeller plane of the Ministry of Health.

His village having almost no contact with the outside world, the Yanomami chiefs of the region gave him a handwritten letter calling on the

police

to expel the

garimpeiros

(illegal miners), to avoid the explosion of a conflict. .