Brazil Ranchers Kill and Wound Indians to Terrorize Them and Take Their Land

[Judi Lynn]

Brazil Ranchers Kill and Wound Indians to Terrorize Them and Take Their Land

Newsroom 15 June 2016



A group of gunmen has attacked a tribal community in southern Brazil, killing one man and wounding at least five others, including a child. It is the latest in a series of violent assaults on the Guarani tribe. The attack took place June 14 in Tey’i Jusu community. Guarani Kaiowá villagers were able to film the attack from a distance. Gunshots and screams are audible in the footage, and fires appear to have been lit in nearby fields.

The man who was killed has been named as Clodiodi Aquileu, a community health worker in his twenties.

The attack is highly likely to be part of escalating attempts by the powerful local agribusiness and ranching interests – closely linked to the recently established interim government – to illegally evict the Guarani from their ancestral land and to intimidate them with genocidal violence and racism.

Earlier this week, human rights organizations Survival received audio through its Tribal Voice project from the Guarani of Pyelito Kue community, documenting a separate attack by gunmen on their village.

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"We are fighting always for our land. Our culture does not allow violence but the ranchers will kill us rather than give it back. Most of the land was taken in the 1960s and 70s. The ranchers arrived and pushed us out. The land is good quality, with rivers and forest. Now it is very valuable."

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http://www.brazzil.com/23951-brazil-ranchers-kill-and-wound-indians-to-terrorize-them-and-take-their-land

[Judi Lynn]

1. 'A Slow Genocide’: Gunmen Attack Indigenous Again In Brazil

'A Slow Genocide’: Gunmen Attack Indigenous Again In Brazil

Rick Kearns

6/16/16

Gunmen attacked a Guarani Kaiowa village in northern Brazil this week, killing one man and wounding six others, including a 12-year old boy.
Activists and Indigenous leaders assert the gunmen were hired by local ranchers who are trying to push the Guarani Kaiowa people out of the Tey’i Jusu community.

Local sources noted that the Indigenous group had just recently moved to the area, which is legally theirs but is also considered part of the Ivu Ranch. Observers speculate that this move may be related to the attack.

The young man killed in the June 14 attack was community health worker Clodiodi Aquileu (said to be in his 20s) and the 12-year-old boy is Josiel Benites who along with the other five wounded people was taken to a nearby hospital.

Guarani Kaiowa villagers filmed the attack; that video shows men in dark uniforms firing at the Indigenous people and yelling racist insults at the villagers.

More:
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/06/16/slow-genocide-gunmen-attack-indigenous-again-brazil-164811