Brazil: The Federal Government is Also Guilty for the Indigenous Murder
We publish an unofficial translation of an article by A Nova Democracia.
The obviously happened. Some months after the first denounces of the siege to the Guarani-Kaiowá lands in Mato Grosso do Sul (MS) done by goons, an indigenous was murdered.
The crime was committed by the Military Police (MP) during a police operation, together with goons, in the Nhanderu Marangatu Indigenous Land (IL) during the morning of the 18th of September. The MP went to the lands following the order of Luana Ruiz, parliamentary of the Bolsonaro’s party (Liberal Party, PL).
It is obvious that the direct and main responsible is the Bolsonarist latifundium of Mato Grosso do Sul and its official and paramilitary agents, who pull the strings of a truly military war operation against Guarani-Kaiowá in different municipalities of the state.
But the federal government is also guilty for the tragedy. Until now, the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples (MIP) has said nothing. Neither the president, Luiz Inácio. Because the MP responds to the State government, it is probably that, if they need to deal with the situation, they would try to take away the guilt.
But the federal government, who was in front of a siege and annihilation operation that lasts months against Guaraní-Kwiowá, did not order the federal troops – National Force or Federal Force – to act in accordance against goons. Since July AND follows the situation in MS. The reports on the sport recorded vehicles from the National Force next to goon camps and nothing happened. The night that the light bulbs were put to avoid that the Guarani-Kaiowá could sleep, the troops continue without doing anything.
The Brazilian people remember when, in this war scenario, the National Force troops abandoned (!) the surroundings of the Pikyxyin, Kurapa’yty and Yvy Ajere retakes, in Douradina, giving the opportunity to the goons, who left 10 people wounded. After this absurdity that was denounced nationally, there wasn’t any assumption of the guilt by MIP or Luiz Inácio on the actions of the troops. There were no investigation cases to figure out why the abandonment of the lands happened and no investigation was done on the denounces of collusion between federal troops and goons by the Guarani-Kaiowá.
Days later, when the minister Sonia Guajajara visited the region, she only said “both parts should be listened.”
Next month, the National Force tried to expel Ava-Guaraní indigenous people at Western Paraná from a land claimed by the indegenous peoples. The indigenous achieved to resist and expel the troops from their lands. But, once again, silence from the government.
The government does not need to order an expel, to do a mega-operation or to approve a project to expel to be responsible for the crimes against the indigenous peoples. By allowing the entrance of the latifundium representative to their government, not condemning the troops which abandon in a war scenario without explication, ordering the federal troops to try to expel indigenous in struggle for land and by introducing, in official spaces, a conciliation and mediation politic in the most absurd, vil and cruel projects, such as the temporary framework, Luiz Inácio shows that it is a government who agrees to the actuation of the Bolsonarist latifundium.
The leader Yankui Tapinambá was pedagogic in the description that she did on the government in an official event last week: “a weakened, cornered government – we know the reason Mr. President – that makes alliances and agreements to keep in power”.
In September last year, the League of the Poor Peasants warned: “History does not forgive. Compromising with the reaction has always led to bloodbaths among the masses!” And then stated:
“We call on and urge the peasants to arm self-defense organizations for the struggle for land in the same proportion and caliber!”
“We call on the peasant leaders who did not bend the knee, and there are thousands throughout Brazil, the squatter leaders, the indigenous peoples, the Quilombola organizations, the populations affected by dams, mining and eucalyptus cultivation, the proletarian masses and other city workers, who increasingly struggle in defense of their trampled rights, to close ranks with our brave peasantry, within the path of the Agrarian Revolution “
