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Judi Lynn

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Tue Oct 8, 2019, 02:16 AM Oct 2019

Warning of uncontacted tribes 'genocide' after sacking of Brazilian government coordinator


By agency reporter
OCTOBER 8, 2019


Brazilian experts have released a damning statement warning “genocide is underway” against uncontacted tribes.

The warning follows the sacking of Bruno Pereira, the head of the government department charged with the protection of uncontacted tribes’ lands.

The experts are “extremely worried” that Pereira has been sacked “for no apparent technical reason”, and that his dismissal “represents yet another backwards step in the policy to protect uncontacted tribes.” They note that “this upheaval will provoke the genocide of uncontacted and recently contacted indigenous peoples”.

The signatories include previous coordinators of the uncontacted Indians unit of the government’s indigenous affairs agency (FUNAI), indigenous people, and past and present 'sertanistas' – field workers who lead expeditions to monitor uncontacted tribes’ territories and keep invaders out.

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