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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Brazilians Protest Against the Murder of Indigenous Leaders</h1>September 15, 2022</div>
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<img src="cid:ii_l84mrlzj0" alt="image.png" width="392" height="238"><br><p>On Thursday, nine
Indigenous Peoples from four Brazilian states gathered at the Three
Powers Square in Brasilia to protest against the escalation of
assassinations of their leaders.</p>
<p>Previously, on Tuesday, gunmen killed Victorino Sanches, a
60-year-old leader of the Guarani-Kaiowa people, as he was getting into a
car in Amambai City, in Mato Grosso do Sul.</p>
<p>The Missionary
Indigenous Council (CIMI) confirmed that he was leading a process of
recovering ancestral lands, which were arbitrarily occupied by informal
businessmen in an area where two other social leaders had already been
assassinated.</p>
<p>The Guarani-Kaiowa
leader was also the target of another attack on August 2, when gunmen
fired over 15 shots at the car in which he was traveling, injuring
Sanches in his arm and leg.</p>
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<div dir="ltr" lang="pt"><p>Indígenas estão sendo mortos todos os dias pela necropolitica e fascismo que se instalou no Brasil!</p><p>
Não aguentamos mais sangrar. Não dá tempo de viver um luto, já temos
outra morte! Ainda perguntam o porquê de eleger uma bancada Indígena?
Você entende a importância disso? <a href="https://t.co/8VmEmrYSL9">pic.twitter.com/8VmEmrYSL9</a></p></div> — Sonia Guajajara 5088 (@GuajajaraSonia)
<a href="https://twitter.com/GuajajaraSonia/status/1570434250649833473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2022</a>
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<p><strong>The tweet reads, "Indigenous people are being killed every
day by the necropolitics and fascism that have been installed in Brazil!
We cannot bear any more bleeding. There is no time to live in mourning,
we already have another death! And yet there is people who ask: why
vote to form an Indigenous caucus? Do you understand the importance of
this?"</strong></p>
<p>The CIMI also
recalled that almost 1,300 violent invasions of Indigenous territories
were recorded in 2021. In reality, however, conflicts over land in Mato
Grosso do Sul have worsened since Jair Bolsonaro took office in January
2019.</p>
<p>This far-right
President prohibited the demarcation of Indigenous lands and removed
protections for territories previously recognized by the Brazilian laws.
These policies led to land invasions by mining, wood and agricultural
companies.</p>
<p>"The attacks the
Indigenous populations are suffering all over Brazil are a racist and
reactionary expression of agricultural companies, which are allied with
Bolsonaro and the military," outlet Esquerda Diario recalled.</p>
<p>"The president
himself, who always makes xenophobic and reactionary comments, allows
them to advance through the violence carried out by hoarders, ranchers,
and seekers of Indigenous lands."</p>
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