BRASILIA – An indigenous group armed by unlawful gold miners attacked a Yanomami village on their huge reservation in northern Brazil, killing two of its members and wounding 5 individuals, a tribal chief stated on Tuesday.
Junior Hekurari, head of a Yanomami well being group referred to as CONDISI, stated the conflict between the 2 communities was fostered by wildcat gold miners who've more and more invaded the reservation during the last three years.
“With the assist of the miners who provided them with weapons, the Tirei group attacked one other referred to as Pixanehabi,” Hekurari stated in a cellphone interview from the state of Roraima bordering Venezuela.
He stated 5 individuals had been wounded within the capturing at noon on Monday, together with a miner, they usually had been ready to be airlifted to the state capital of Boa Vista.
Roraima state authorities stated it was a federal matter. Brazil’s indigenous affairs company Funai didn't reply to a request for remark.
Federal police stated they'd no information of the capturing within the area of Xitei near the border with Venezuela.
Brazil’s largest reservation is the dimensions of Portugal and was created 30 years in the past to guard the Yanomami territory from unlawful gold miners, however excessive gold costs and tacit assist from far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has set off a brand new gold rush.
A report printed on Monday by the Hutukara Yanomami Affiliation discovered a 46% rise in wildcat mining final 12 months on rivers within the reservation the place some 29,000 Yanomami stay.
The growth has introduced illness, violence and grave human rights violations on the Yanomami those that regulation enforcement has didn't cease beneath the Bolsonaro authorities, which has argued for extra mining on indigenous lands.
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