Indigenous leader urges EU to impose sanctions on Brazil
Indigenous leader urges EU to impose sanctions on Brazil
Europe told if it does not act it will be turning blind eye to genocide under Bolsonaro
Arthur Neslen
Tue 18 Dec 2018 01.00 EST
Brazils foremost indigenous leader has called on the EU to impose trade sanctions to prevent ecological disaster and a social extermination by her countrys far-right president-elect, who takes office on 1 January.
Jair Bolsonaro has terrified indigenous communities by promising to take every centimetre of their land, designate rights activists as terrorists and carve a motorway through the Amazon, which could deforest an area larger than Germany.
Sônia Guajajara, the leader of Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (APBI) which represents more than 300 Brazilian indigenous groups, said: We are afraid of a new genocide against the indigenous population and we are not going to wait for it to happen. We will resist. We will defend our territories, and our lives.
Before his election, Bolsonaro, an admirer of Brazils military dictators, called for minorities to bow to the majority will or disappear. He once said: Its a shame that the Brazilian cavalry wasnt as efficient as the Americans, who exterminated their Indians.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/18/indigenous-leader-urges-eu-to-impose-sanctions-on-brazil
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