The Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sônia Guajajara, said this Friday (27) that the President of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Rosa Weber, hopes to complete the judgment on the thesis of the time frame for demarcation of indigenous lands later this year. The end of the trial is a goal of the minister’s management at the head of the court. Rosa Weber compulsorily retires in September of this year and, consequently, will leave the presidency. “Is it over there [Rosa Weber] signaled that the time frame will be judged in its management”, said Guajajara in an interview with vehicles from Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC). he has no deadline to present his vote. “It is important that the judgment be resumed, to end this legal uncertainty, this anxiety of the people. Not only the Xokleng people, from Santa Catarina, who are the object of the trial, but everyone. If it is a case of general repercussions, it will affect everyone, all indigenous peoples are anxiously awaiting this result”. of the trial. During a meeting with the president of the STF, the legal coordinator of Apib, Maurício Terena, presented the minister with the situation of violence against indigenous peoples in the country and asked that the process be set aside for judgment. “We understand that it is a necessity of the STF to resolve this issue of the demarcation of indigenous lands in the country”, he said. According to Terena, the minister said during the meeting that the judgment is a “commitment of her management”. to guide this judgment, which is so important to us”, he said. Yanomami Maurício Terena also said that he met this week with members of the Cabinet of Minister Luís Roberto Barroso to reiterate the request the removal of indigenous lands. “In 2020, when this action was filed, we were already denouncing to the Supreme Court the situation that was befalling the Yanomami indigenous peoples,” he said. Through the action filed by Apib, the STF has been monitoring the situation for almost three years. According to Minister Sônia Guajajara, there is already a removal plan drawn up by the Federal Police (PF) and which is being updated by the new management. According to the minister’s estimates, a population of around 30,000 indigenous people live in the Yanomami territory, some of them isolated, and the number of invaders has already reached 20,000 people. During the government of Jair Bolsonaro, two processes were opened that deal with the protection of indigenous people against covid-19 and the determination of a plan to expel miners and loggers from seven indigenous lands, including the Yanomami Indigenous Land, in Roraima. The STF’s determinations involved sending food, medicine, fuel and the use of police force to protect communities. According to the Court, the measures adopted by the previous government did not follow the planning approved by the STF and “occurred with deficiencies”. According to data from the processes, the government would have carried out “cycles of operations to repress illegal mining in Yanomami land”. Understand In the trial, ministers discuss the so-called time frame. According to the thesis, defended by landowners, the indigenous people would only be entitled to the lands that were in their possession on October 5, 1988, date of enactment of the Federal Constitution, or that were in legal dispute at that time. The process that motivated the discussion deals with the dispute over the ownership of the Indigenous Land (TI) Ibirama, in Santa Catarina. The area is inhabited by the Xokleng, Kaingang and Guarani peoples, and ownership of part of the IL is questioned by the state attorney’s office. The judgment score is tied at 1 to 1. The rapporteur of the case, Minister Edson Fachin, voted against the time frame for the demarcation of indigenous lands. Minister Nunes Marques, on the other hand, opened a divergence in favor of the time frame to limit the expansion of indigenous lands in the country.
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