Invaders sentinels of terra
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In the recent past, similar situations resulted in massacres such as that of Haximu, in 1993, the first case of genocide recognized in Brazil. Earlier this year, on February 25, indigenous people in the Helepe community suffered an attack by prospectors that resulted in a seriously injured indigenous man and the death of one of the prospectors-they withdrew, threatening to retaliate. The document points to the increase in conflicts between Indigenous people and prospectors as one of the effects of the increased presence of invaders in the Yanomami Indigenous Land, citing the murder of two young Yanomami in the Parima River region, in July 2020. Here in Roraima, prospectors, businessmen and politicians do not respect Indigenous peoples, they just want to take away our wealth,” emphasized Kopenawa. “I am very concerned, because the prospectors are not alone, they’ve assembled in large groups, they are armed, supported by businessmen, the governor of Roraima and President Bolsonaro, as well as other Brazilian businessmen. The shaman also fears for a conflict with the invaders. The prospectors are already reaching my home,” reported Kopenawa. They are arriving in the middle of the Yanomami land. They are coming in like starved beasts, looking for the wealth of our land. Twenty years ago, we managed to send these invaders away, and they returned. These prospectors are like pigs from big farms-they dig a lot of holes looking for precious stones like gold and diamonds. “You see the dirty water, the yellowish river, pits everywhere. Yanomami leader and shaman Davi Kopenawa, chairman of the Hutukara Yanomami Association, says he is concerned and outraged by the current invasion by prospectors.
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Today, in addition to it, three new mining areas have appeared near the communities of Aracaçá, Korekorema and the Ye'kwana de Waikás. Until recently, the mining site known as “Tatuzão do Mutum,” on the banks of the Uraricoera River, concentrated the largest portion of prospection activities in the region. The document also points out the exact location of new gold mining centers in along the main river beds that flow through the Indigenous land, particularly the Uraricoera River, which accounts for more than half (52%) of the entire area degraded by mining activity. The report emphasizes six regions especially affected by the devastation, such as Waikás and Kayanau, with 35% and 23% of the total scars mapped, respectively. Produced by Hutukara Yanomami Association (HAY) and Wanasseduume Ye'kwana Association (Seduume), the report “Scars in the Forest - Evolution of illegal mining in the Yanomami Indigenous Land (YIL) in 2020”, published on March 25, denounces how this criminal activity has been proliferating in the Indigenous land, going up the rivers and getting closer and closer to Indigenous communities, with new access routes penetrating the forest. The total deforested area is 2,400 hectares-in 2020 alone it increased by 30%.Įven with the Covid-19 pandemic, which has killed more than 260,000 people across the country, illegal activity has never stopped-on the contrary. Five hundred hectares of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed by illegal mining on the Indigenous territory.
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From January to December 2020, an area equivalent to 500 soccer fields was devastated in the Yanomami Indigenous Land, located in the far north of Brazil, between the states of Amazonas and Roraima.