The Minister of Human Rights and Citizenship, Silvio Almeida, asked the Ministry of Justice and Public Security for measures to protect indigenous leaders as a matter of urgency. The minister calls for the permanent presence of federal security forces in the Yanomami Indigenous Land and escort for the leaders, in the face of threats made by miners to leaders and health teams. Almeida also asks that the Federal Police intensify intelligence actions to monitor the actions of miners against the indigenous community and that the National Force assist the PF in this mission. The document also requests that an emergency plan be drawn up to disintrude miners, given reports that they are preventing health care, including for indigenous children. Almeida also wants the advisability of launching an investigation to determine the involvement of local authorities in illegal mining, “considering the lack of adoption of measures to protect the territory and to confront illegal activity, at the local level, and the lack of laws contrary to the control of gold mining activity.” Threats On a mission, the delegation of the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship (MDHC) identified systematic threats from gold miners to the integrity of indigenous peoples and also from the task force led by health teams present at the site. The letter states, for example, that prospectors have been imposing their presence “in an ostensive way, also acting in the enticement of young indigenous people and in the distribution of firearms”. “Several reports of systematic threats against Yanomami leaders were presented. It was possible to assess, through specialized listening to such leaders, that there is a situation of concrete and imminent risk to their physical integrity and life, enhanced by the presence of federal agencies in the territory and by the announcements of government authorities that the prospectors will be removed from the area. Yanomami Indigenous Land”, claims the letter.
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