BRASILIA – The Brazilian authorities’s indigenous affairs company Funai mentioned on Wednesday that it's wanting right into a report that a Yanomami teenager died after she was kidnapped and raped by unlawful gold miners on her reservation.
“Funai is monitoring the case,” the company mentioned by electronic mail, including that it was working with regulation enforcement to guard the Yanomami individuals in northern Brazil.
Federal police within the state of Roraima mentioned they'd solely heard in regards to the case within the media.
Globo TV reported that a 12-year-old teenager died after being raped by miners who invaded a Yanomami village on the Uraricoera river within the Waikas area. Globo TV cited the Yanomami well being council Condisi, which mentioned it knowledgeable the Federal Police and the Brazilian military on Monday evening.
Reuters was not in a position to independently affirm the report.
The Yanomami individuals stay subsequent to the border with Venezuela on Brazil’s largest indigenous reservation that has been invaded by hundreds of miners illegally prospecting for gold, inflicting air pollution of rivers, taking pictures incidents and different abuses.
Tribal chief Dario Kopenawa mentioned the Hutukara Yanomami Affiliation was nonetheless investigating what had occurred, and accused the federal government company of failing to assist his individuals.
“Funai is mendacity. They do nothing to guard us. They're supporting the unlawful mining exercise right here,” Kopenawa mentioned to Reuters.
The mining growth has introduced illness, violence and grave human rights violations on the Yanomami individuals, in response to a current research that blamed excessive gold costs and tacit authorities help.
The gold rush on protected Yanomami lands has elevated beneath Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro who's backing laws to permit business agriculture, mining and oil exploration on indigenous reservations.
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