Survival Alert: Brazil Dismantles Democracy in Assault on Indigenous Rights
The recent discovery of a “lost” report detailing shocking atrocities committed against Brazilian Indians during the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s serves as a stark warning at a time when the country’s indigenous tribes are once again facing an onslaught against thier rights.
The so-called Figueiredo report documented horrific crimes such as mass murder, torture, enslavement, bacteriological warfare, sexual abuse, land theft and neglect against Brazil’s indigenous population at the hands of powerful landowners and the government’s own Indian Protection Service.
Dynamite was hurled from a small plane onto a village of ‘Cinta Larga’ Indians below. The Indians were seen to be in the way of a group of rubber barons’ commercial activities.
Some tribes were completely wiped out as a result, and many others decimated.
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I think the indigenous issue is very serious and there are enough reasons to criticize the Brazilian government without resorting to lies.
Sônia Guajajara, vice-coordinador of COIAB (Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon) handing a manifest to president Dilma Rousseff
Dilma receiving a letter from Marcos Apurinã, coordinator of COIAB
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A leader of the Korubo ethnic group presents Dilma with a book
Claudir da Silva, chief of the indigenous land Lomba do Pinheiro, receives a human rights prize from president Dilma
Dilma and Lula visiting the indigenous tribe Apurinã
Indigenous leader meeting with Dilma
