Brazil: Guarani ‘despair’ as female indigenous leader murdered
Na foto ela aparece com a camiseta branca ao centro.
Posted by Survival and Red Power Media An indigenous leader has been killed in central-western Brazil, after campaigning for her tribe’s ancestral land to be returned.
Marinalva Manoel, a 27-year-old Guarani Indian, was allegedly raped and stabbed to death. Her body was found on the side of a highway on Saturday.
Last month Marinalva traveled over 1,000 km to the capital, Brasília, with a delegation of Guarani leaders, to insist that the authorities fulfil their legal duty to return the land to the Guarani before more of their people are killed.
The Guarani Council, Aty Guasu, which voices the Indians’ demands, has released a letter calling on the authorities to investigate the murder, and proclaiming, “No more Guarani deaths!” The letter detailed a whole series of death threats against them. Marinalva’s body was naked with dozens of stab wounds.
Guarani leaders are frequently attacked and killed by gunmen employed by the ranchers who are occupying indigenous land and earning huge profits from sugar cane, soya and cattle whilst the Guarani are squeezed into reserves and roadside camps.
Suffering alarming rates of malnutrition, violence and suicide, the Guarani sometimes decide to reoccupy small patches of their ancestral land stolen from them decades ago, without which they cannot survive. Seven communities which recently carried out land reoccupations, including Marinalva’s community, now face eviction orders which could force them off their land yet again.
Guarani leader Eliseu Lopes told Survival, “We are fighting for our land, and we are being killed, one by one. They want to get rid of us altogether… We are in a state of despair, but we will not give up.”
http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/10531
Aty Guasu denuncia assassinato da liderança Kaiowá Marinalva Manoel e pede providências ao MPF
Categoria » Direitos Humanos
We indigenous people are ALL leaders and will continue fighting for our rights”
Por: Tania Pacheco
O Conselho da Aty Guasu enviou carta (abaixo) a Deborah Duprat, coordenadora da 6ª Câmara de Coordenação e Revisão do MPF, e ao Procurador da República em Dourados, Marco Antonio Delfino, sobre a morte da liderança Kaiowá Marinalva Manoel, de 28 anos.
Uma das integrantes da comitiva que esteve em Brasília semana passada para exigir dos poderes públicos a demarcação das terras Guarani e Kaiowá, Marinalva foi encontrada na manhã de ontem (01/11) na margem da BR-163, despida e assassinada com diversas facadas.
Reunido na Terra Indígena Nhuporã, o Conselho da Aty Guasu exige, na carta, “investigação justa” para a morte de Marinalva Manoel, “pois a mesma já vinha sofrendo várias ameaças de morte”. A carta continua:
“Assim como todos nós povo Guarani e Kaiowá que estamos sofrendo ameaças de morte, ameaças de despejo, ameaças de invalidação dos laudos antropológicos de nossas Terras Indígenas Tradicionais decidimos que não vamos aceitar essa impunidade pacificamente, chega de morte Kaiowá”.
Seguem as assinaturas de 19 lideranças………………Aty Guasu .
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