What Gold Miners In A Bar Boasted They’d Done To A Never Before Contacted Amazonian Tribe, Is Truly Disturbing
16. The Brazillian Government and Uncontacted Tribes
President Michel Temer has faced a lot of heat for violence against these tribes, especially after cutting funding organizations such as FUNAI in April 2017. He also opened up various Amazon reserves to miners which have resulted and in heavy criticism by a wide range of groups, “We had problems with previous governments but not like this,” said Leila Silvia Burger Sotto Maior- a FUNAI coordinator- to the New York Times.
“[T]he government’s open support for those who want to open up indigenous territories is utterly shameful, and is setting indigenous rights in Brazil back decades”, said Stephen Corry, the director of tribal rights organization Survival International. What happened in Septemeber of 2017 seems like a story from decades ago, and how sad it is that it’s still happening in the present day.
