The violence of rural capitalists has only increased against peasants,
indigenous people, quilombolas and other rural and forest peoples in thecountry. It is the indigenous people who have been reclaiming areas
officially recognized as traditional by the State itself, identified and
delimited in 2011. According to the 2023 Report on Violence Against
Indigenous Peoples in Brazil, by the Indigenous Missionary Council
(CIMI), there were 225 murders. In addition, hundreds of cases of
systematic lack of assistance were identified in the same report. Last
week, attacks took place in the Guarani and Kaiowá reclaimed land of the
Panambi Lagoa Rica Indigenous Land, in Douradina (MS).
According to Aty Guasu, the Great Guarani and Kaiowá Assembly, rural
militias have been acting in the region to impose the will of farmers
and the local ruling class through terror. Aty Guasu denounces that this
group is made up of rural producers, gunmen, people who are passionate
about anti-indigenous ideas, gunmen and far-right candidates for public
office, carrying firearms and non-lethal weapons (rubber bullets,
rockets), and has been promoting shootings, psychological terror,
physical aggression, demolition of shacks set up by indigenous people
and various forms of violence, such as threats of sexual assault against
indigenous girls and women.
The National Force and the police, as expected, are acting in accordance
with the interests of the farmers and the local ruling class. The
National Public Security Force (FNSP) was deployed to the region in
January 2024, by order of the Ministry of Justice, and has been
operating since then in the municipalities of Guaíra and Terra Roxa,
which encompass the Tekoha Guasu Guavirá Indigenous Territory. However,
the FN has allowed the Guarani and Kaiowá people to be attacked by local
farming groups. Last week, at least 10 people were injured in an attack
by militia groups, which had the support of the FN, which did nothing to
prevent the attacks on the Yvy Ajere reoccupation, located on Cleto
Spessatto's farm.
The terror implemented by the local ruling class aims to once again
expel the Guarani Kaiowá people from their lands. On Sunday, August 4,
even with the presence of the National Force, the Federal Public
Ministry (MPF), the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples (PI), and the Public
Defenders' Offices, this armed militia, which is camped on Cleto
Spessatto's property, carried out a new attack at dusk against the
indigenous community, which is mostly made up of children, teenagers,
women, and the elderly, leaving another person injured. The barbarity
was all filmed because the militiamen did not care about those who
visited the Guarani and Kaiowá reoccupations.
In Paraná, the Avá-Guarani have been attacked by farmers in the western
region of Paraná. These actions began after the reoccupation of the Ara
Poty and Arakoé tekoha, carried out on July 4th. At least one indigenous
person was injured by gunfire and two others were deliberately run over
during the attacks. In response to the violence, the indigenous people
decided to reoccupy new areas in the territory, identified and delimited
by Funai in 2018 with 24 thousand hectares. The demarcation process was
suspended by a decision of the Federal Court, which the indigenous
people and Funai appealed.
Currently, there are at least nine reoccupations established in the TI,
and all of them have suffered attacks during this period: Arakoé, Ara
Poty, Yvyju Avary and Tekoha Tata Rendy, in the municipality of Terra
Roxa, and Tatury, Yvyju Avary, Y'Hovy, Jevy and Hite, in Guaíra.
In the city of Jaguaruana - CE, the people of the Gregório Bezerra
occupation coordinated by OPA, were surprised by the presence of gunmen
in the surroundings of the occupation, still in July. For over a week,
the people of this occupation remained surrounded by thugs, without
explanation. The occupied farm is owned by state deputy Osmar
Baquit/PDT. Therefore, the responsibility for the thugs lies with this
politician and his party.
The people of the occupation have already proven that the state is
negotiating to expropriate this land, but even so, the thugs remained
for weeks. It took several demonstrations of solidarity throughout
Brazil, from occupations and popular movements, for the situation to be
reversed.
In Caucaia, also in Ceará, the reoccupation of the Anacé-Parnamirim
indigenous people was also the target of attacks by thugs and military
police. On that occasion, tractors destroyed the buildings and they
fired firearms to intimidate the Anacé people. The people's tools were
stolen, causing enormous damage. This land was stolen by a local
businessman, leaving it unproductive, living off his speculation. The
Anacé people have been demanding this land, which has been in
reoccupation for two years.
Both situations demonstrate how the Elmano/PT government deals with the
agrarian issue, allowing thugs to continue imposing terror on the poor
people who dare to fight!
The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples of the Lula/PT government does not
serve the just and necessary struggle of the native peoples. Its current
purpose is to seek to nurture illusions for the people who suffer from
violence in the countryside and forests, capturing indigenous leaders to
accommodate them to the system that massacres their people, while the
Lula government continues to embrace the agribusiness that murders these
peoples!
More than ever, it is necessary to advance in the construction of
popular self-defense in the fields and forests of the country. The
Lula/PT government is an accomplice of the agribusiness entrepreneurs,
who control the national congress and the judiciary. Directing forces to
occupy the State and its parliament is failing to organize resistance,
as the peoples have done with the advance of the reoccupations. The
second step must be taken: to promote self-defense to protect life and
guarantee peace, since the State itself has no interest in the peoples
of the countryside and the forest being victorious in their fight for
Land and Freedom.
Full support to the Guarani and Kaiowá people and their reoccupation
throughout Brazil!
Full support to the people's fight for land and freedom!
https://uniaoanarquista.wordpress.com/2024/08/20/agronegocio-impoe-terror-no-campo-brasileiro-com-cumplicidade-do-estado-e-seus-poderes/
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