May 5, 2022

07:05

Ívina Garcia – Cenarium Magazine

MANAUS – The Human Rights Commission of the Senate got approval on Wednesday, 4, for the sending of a team to investigate allegations of crimes against the Yanomami, next May 12. In the request, made by Senator Humberto Costa (PT-PE), the expedition will be carried out to “rigorously investigate” the cases of violence against the Yanomami.

In his speech, Humberto attributed responsibility for the crimes against the Yanomami people to the federal government. “The cases denounced by the District Council of Indigenous Health Yanomami and Ye’kwana (Condisi-YY) and other entities are scabrous. Rape, homicides, infanticide, missing persons… It is clear that the Bolsonaro government not only encourages this violence, but is complicit in it. Depending on the federal government, nothing will be investigated. And we will not let this happen,” says the senator.

In the last month, several violent reports were registered in Yanomami territory. In the justification, Humberto recalls the humanitarian crisis that affects the community and points out the isolation of the Yanomami people since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. The parliamentarian also states that the situation was aggravated after the arrival of illegal mining.

“This is a community that was forbidden by the National Indian Foundation (Funai) to receive humanitarian aid from doctors and other professionals from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) under the allegation that the tribes had to be preserved from outside contact because of Covid-19. At the same time, this community was not properly assisted by the state in combating the new coronavirus and other serious diseases, such as malaria, which ravaged the Yanomami Territory,” it says in an excerpt.

Report

In another excerpt, he denounces the omission of the federal government. “What we observe is that the Brazilian state is still negligent and is letting the Yanomami community disappear,” and then cites the report ‘Yanomami under Attack’, which CENARIUM had access and unraveled, helping to expose the situation that the community has been going through.

“As illegal mining advances, communities lose control over their living space. The miners move freely and heavily armed through the communities, intimidating the indigenous people and forcing them to cohere to the conditions imposed by these invaders.” Humberto’s report coincides with the denunciations made by the Yanomami and Ye’kwana Indigenous Health District Council (Condisi-YY), when they arrived in the region of the Waikás and the indigenous people did not want to give information for fear of the miners.

Violence

On the 25th, a 12 year old indigenous teenager was killed after being sexually assaulted by miners in the Palimiú community in Roraima. The case was denounced by the president of the District Council of Indigenous Health Yanomami and Ye’kuana (Condisi-YY), Júnior Hekurari Yanomami, who also pointed out that a 4-year-old child, who was traveling with the young girl by boat, fell into a river in the region and disappeared.

At the time, in an interview with CENARIUM, the indigenous leader said that a group of men from the mines invaded the community and took the adolescent and two other women who were with the child who, while trying to defend herself, fell into the water.