With the mobilization of security forces in the Yanomami Indigenous Land (TI), part of the garimpeiros has moved from areas where there is more repression to other points. The alert is from the Yanomami Association of the Cauaburis River and Affluents, the Association of Yanomami Kumirayoma Women and the Federation of Indigenous Organizations of the Rio Negro. The leaders denounce the increase in prospectors around Pico da Neblina, a sacred place for the Yanomami. “The Yanomami have long known the movement of small manual mines in the region, and the Pico da Neblina area is also one of the access points for other mines in Venezuela,” they write, in a letter addressed to the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, the National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples (Funai) and the administration of the Pico da Neblina National Park. Located in the municipality of Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, in the north of the state of Amazonas, in the Serra do Imeri, Pico da Neblina is the highest point in Brazil, at 2,995.30 meters above sea level, according to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) In the document sent to the authorities, the indigenous people mention the arrival of mining machinery at the site and of a “garimpeiro shot in a conflict inside the garimpo”, on the last 3rd. the secretary of the Yanomami Association of the Cauaburis River and Affluents, Vilmar da Silva Matos, after the leaders refused to help transport him to another health unit. The gold digger sought help at the Ariabu Community Base Pole. What the associations are asking the federal government is for the territory of Maturacá to be included in actions to combat illegal mining. “We request that allegations of mining invasion in the Pico da Neblina area be investigated with the utmost urgency, considering the safety of the Yanomami communities in the region with a population of more than 3,000 people”, they add.
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