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Brazil deploys air force to protect Yanomami land from illegal mining in the Amazon

Indigenous Yanomami men watch Brazilian Air Force aircraft at Surukuku airfield in Yanomami territory, Alto Alegre Municipality, Roraima State, Brazil | Fountain: AFP

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This Wednesday, the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) began mobilization in the local reserve. Yanomamiahead of a major operation scheduled for next week against illegal miners gold, blamed for the destruction of this protected corner of the Amazon.

The operation began this Wednesday with the deployment of fighter jets and reconnaissance aircraft equipped with powerful radars.

“Every suspicious flight will be diverted and the plane will have to land in order to be identified,” warned Defense Minister José Musio, who gave an interview to BandNews the day before.

By decree signed on Monday, President BrazilLuis Inacio Lula da Silva, banned overflights of certain areas and allowed the Air Force to open fire on suspicious aircraft to force them to land.

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Aerial view of Mukahai River, Yanomami Indigenous Area, Roraima State, Brazil | Fountain: AFP

The federal police launched last week an investigation into possible crimes against members of the ethnic group. Yanomamiincluding a “genocide” following the release of official figures that accounted for the deaths of hundreds of children under the age of five last year in the country’s largest nature reserve, home to about 30,400 indigenous people.

field hospital

In recent days, the military has set up a field hospital in Boa Vista, the capital of the state of Roraima (north), where “more than 300 people, mostly children,” have already been treated, Giuliana Freire said at a press conference on Wednesday. Vandestin, commander of the medical center.

“There are many cases of pneumonia, intestinal parasites, malaria and many skin diseases,” he added.

According to the leaders Yanomamiaround 20,000 underground miners They have invaded their territory, killing the indigenous population, sexually abusing women and teenagers, and polluting their rivers with mercury, which they use to separate gold from sediments.

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A Yanomami indigenous woman and her children walk on the Surukuku Airfield, located in Yanomami territory, Alto Alegre Municipality, Roraima State, Brazil | Fountain: AFP

On Monday, a Federal Supreme Court judge ordered members of the government of former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) to be involved in the “genocide” investigation.

Bolsonaro, whose father was a “garimpeiro” at the Serra Pelada quarry in the 1980s, has always advocated mining in indigenous territories.

During his reign, the territory devastated illegal mining on the ground Yanomami According to a satellite study by the Khutukara Association, in October 2018, when he won the election, it increased from 1236 hectares to 5053 hectares in December 2022. Yanomamiissued by the Socio-Ecological Institute.

root out

“We know what the cause of the problem is: the presence of illegal garimpos [minería de oro clandestina, ndlr] very strong (on Yanomami territory) and will be dismantled,” said Minister Mushio.

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Aerial view of the Brazilian Air Force Field Hospital built inside the Home of Indigenous Health in Boa Vista City, Roraima State, Brazil | Fountain: AFP

“We are going to meet them face to face and eradicate the evil at the root,” he added.

Musio said he would be on the ground next Wednesday, accompanied by army, air force and navy commanders and the head of the federal police, in a “coordinated effort by all agencies” against the gold diggers. .

“Garimpeiros” often use aircraft to reach the interior lands of the indigenous peoples, which are difficult to reach by land.

Residents of these legally inviolable territories, where any mining is prohibited, are facing food problems due to the destruction of the rainforests, where they traditionally earned their livelihood.

In addition to the operation against illegal minersSince last week, the Air Force has delivered 61 tons of food and medicine to the Yanomami.

(According to AFP)

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A photograph of indigenous Yanomami people on a street in Boa Vista, in the Amazonian state of Roraima, Brazil, in the midst of a humanitarian and health crisis due to mining operations taking place on their lands. | Fountain: EFE

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