The Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (Apib) sent today (26) a representation to the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) asking for the opening of an inquiry to investigate omissions by the Jair Bolsonaro government involving the Yanomami people.
In the criminal representation, the entity claims that, during the previous government, there was a lack of health care, weakening of legal protection frameworks and collusion with illegal mining within the Yanomami Indigenous Land, in Roraima.
“We can mention that former president Jair Bolsonaro omitted to international entities the current condition of the Yanomami peoples, thus providing guarantees that the communities were being assisted and that specific health programs were being implemented. This report contradicts the images circulating on the internet, in which the abandonment of public policies is reflected in the bodies of the Yanomami indigenous people”, says the entity.
The document mentions former President Jair Bolsonaro, former Minister of Human Rights Damares Alves, as well as former directors of Funai and the Indigenous Health Secretariat. For Apib, everyone must answer for the crimes of genocide and administrative impropriety.
“It is clear that the conduct, actions and omissions of the defendants had the lucid objective of eliminating, decimating, reducing indigenous communities, especially the Yanomami population”, argues Apib.
Earlier, the Federal Supreme Court (STF) reported that evidence of non-compliance with the Court’s determinations and the sending of false information involving the situation of the Yanomami indigenous population by the Bolsonaro government.
The crisis affecting the communities of the Yanomami Indigenous Land led the federal government to declare a Public Health Emergency of National Importance to combat the lack of health care for the people living in the region. The ordinance was published last Friday night (20) in an extra edition of Official Diary of the Union. On Saturday (21), President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and ministers of State visited Roraima to monitor the situation of the indigenous people.
Defense
Through social networks, Damares Alves, senator elected by the Federal District, denied any omission during the previous government. Damares stated that the indigenous policy was carried out by the Education, Health and Justice departments and that the Ministry of Human Rights, which she commanded, was responsible for receiving complaints of violations of indigenous rights and forwarding them to the authorities. responsible.
According to Damares, her ministry monitored the situation of the indigenous in loco and distributed basic baskets at the height of the pandemic.
