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"We are in great danger": In Amazon, indigenous Waiapi chief is killed by illegal miners
“They’re paying with their lives,” a human rights activist says about indigenous groups trying to protect the rainforest from mining and agribusiness.
Illegal gold miners armed with automatic weapons and shotguns, invaded the remote indigenous community of the Waiapi and murdered one of its chiefs in Brazil’s northern Amazon last week, according to several of the group’s leaders and indigenous rights activists.
The body of chief Emyra Waiapi, 68, was discovered last Monday with several stab wounds, including to his genitals, one of the group’s leaders, Viseni Waiapi, said in an audio message sent to NBC reporters Saturday in Portuguese.
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Illegal miners, ranchers & timber poachers have increased 150% in number since the election of Trump's right-wing buddy Brazil’s right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro, took power earlier this year
'Currently, there at least 10,000 miners illegally occupying and exploiting Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami land in northern Brazil.' These thugs are using sophisticated night-vision goggles & pit bulls to seek local inhabitants by night.
“They’re paying with their lives,” a human rights activist says about indigenous groups trying to protect the rainforest from mining and agribusiness.
Illegal gold miners armed with automatic weapons and shotguns, invaded the remote indigenous community of the Waiapi and murdered one of its chiefs in Brazil’s northern Amazon last week, according to several of the group’s leaders and indigenous rights activists.
The body of chief Emyra Waiapi, 68, was discovered last Monday with several stab wounds, including to his genitals, one of the group’s leaders, Viseni Waiapi, said in an audio message sent to NBC reporters Saturday in Portuguese.
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Illegal miners, ranchers & timber poachers have increased 150% in number since the election of Trump's right-wing buddy Brazil’s right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro, took power earlier this year
'Currently, there at least 10,000 miners illegally occupying and exploiting Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami land in northern Brazil.' These thugs are using sophisticated night-vision goggles & pit bulls to seek local inhabitants by night.