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#Brazil: About 200 people invaded the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau territory in Rondônia (Amazon), trying to take possession of the indigenous land. Videos made by indigenous people show areas deforested. newsrondonia.com.br/noticias/terra… Via @GuajajaraSonia
The land-grabbers are threatening the indigenous people in Rondônia. Why is @funaioficial not acting? @jairbolsonaro
"There is a wave of invasions of indigenous lands," says @GuajajaraSonia. In the state of Maranhão, people & groups linked to ranchers are calling settlers evicted from the #indigenous land of the Awá Guajá in 2014. About #AwaGuaja …imisolados.trabalhoindigenista.org.br/2015/12/09/awa…
During the #MichelTemer gov't, there has been an increase in cases of 14 of the 19 types of violence documented in the Report Violence against Indigenous Peoples in Brazil – Data for 2017. #JairBolsonaro promises to worsen this violent context. cimi.org.br/2018/12/cimis-…
The forest only remains until the limits of the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau Indigenous Land. The entire region has already been deforested mainly by cattle farms. Photo (2018): Gabriel Uchida / VICE vice.com/pt_br/article/… #Brazil #indigenous 
Since at least the beginning of the 20th Century, the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau have struggled against the fronts of expansion that invaded the region. pib.socioambiental.org/en/Povo:Uru-Eu… via @socioambiental
Photo: Jesco von Puttkamer, 1985.
Photo: Jesco von Puttkamer, 1985.
