Coordinated Action Finds Garimpo Close to Isolated Peoples in the Yanomami TI

A coordinated action between the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, the Ministry of the Environment, Funai, Ibama, the National Force and the Federal Police flew over the Yanomami territory this Friday (10/2) and identified a community of isolated indigenous peoples, with no contact with the society, living less than 15km from a mining point The images recorded by the flyover prove that the indigenous people live in the place and would not be far from there, given the conservation of the malocas that shelter them and the food grown in the surroundings.

According to Funai, they are indigenous people of the Moxihatëtëa people, isolated, but monitored by them since 2010 This was the first monitoring flyover under the Lula government, where it was found that new mines had formed in the immediate surroundings.

» Images recorded during the flyover: Credits: Leo Otero - MPI Since January 20, when President Lula and the Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, were in Boa Vista to verify the serious health and humanitarian crisis that devastates the indigenous peoples in the Yanomami territory, several actions have already been put into practice by the Federal Government Actions such as the creation of the National Coordination Committee to Combat Sanitary Lack of Assistance in the Yanomami Territory, in an inter-ministerial effort that has brought emergency medical assistance and supplies to the region.

As part of dealing with the crisis in the territory, the Federal Government is now working to remove the prospectors occupying the region “It is important that the garimpeiros get out of there as soon as possible.

Their presence there poses a fatal risk to the isolated people, so those who refuse to leave must be arrested by the operation,” said Minister Sonia Guajajara The operation to remove invaders and miners from Yanomami territory is an initiative of the Federal Government in response to the environmental degradation caused by gold mining, which has generated the sanitary and health crisis that the Yanomami indigenous people have been facing.

OPERATION LIBERTATION - The Federal Police started this Friday (10/2) actions to eradicate illegal mining in Yanomami lands, within the scope of Operation Liberation The works are aimed at interrupting the logistics of the crime, focusing on the destruction of the infrastructure used for the practice of illegal mining, as well as the materialization of evidence about criminal activity.

The task force is led by the Federal Police and comprises Ibama, Funai, the National Force and the Ministry of Defense In this phase, the PF works to stop the crime, through the destruction of machinery and means dedicated to crime.

The objective is to protect the Yanomami population and completely eradicate illegal mining throughout all phases of Operation Liberation Source: Ascom - Ministry of Indigenous Peoples.