One child dead and five injured after attack on a Yanomami indigenous village in Brazil

A shooting attack against a village in the Yanomami Indigenous Land in Brazil It left a child dead and five adults injured, the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples reported on Tuesday.

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The events occurred on Monday night in Parimaa Yanomami village located in the state of Roraimaborder region with Venezuelain the north of the country.

The Government regretted what happened and assured in a statement that it had acted to identify the culprits and bring them to justicealthough he did not detail who they are or if they have already been arrested.

It also reported that the wounded received “Inmediate attention” in the place and that later they were transferred to other cities of the region by means of airplanes of the Navy and the Army.

The Executive also claimed to be working “in operations planning and execution actions” to expel illegal miners, and reiterated its commitment to “restructure the policies oriented to the promotion and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples”.

indigenous land Yanomamiwhich covers almost 10 million hectares on the border with Venezuela, is one of the regions most affected by illegal mining, an activity that multiplied during the former president’s term. Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022), which defends the exploitation of natural resources, even on original lands.

In January, the president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared a state of health emergency in that region in the face of growing fatal cases of malaria and malnutrition among the indigenous people, and mobilized the security forces to expel the 20,000 miners who, according to government estimates, were operating there.

He Executive declared the zone “free of illegal mining” two weeks ago, after almost six months of operations and given the drastic reduction in the number of alerts.

Source: Elcomercio

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