It is with profound sadness and outrage that I express my deepest and most sincere condolences to the family members of Firmino Silvino Prexede Guajajara and Raimundo Guajajara who at this moment are feeling the pain and sadness of losing a loved one to such cruelty, that made victims among the Guajajara People today. The Indigenous People lived in the villages Silvino (Cana Brava Indigenous Land) and Severino Descendência village (Lagoa Comprida Indigenous Land), both in the state of Maranhão, where, 35 days ago had already gone through the murder of Paulo Paulino Guajajara, who acted as a guardian of the forest.
I feel a mix of pain and anger toward yet another crime that hovers over my Guajajara people. This crime is a reflection of the escalation of hate and cruelty incited by the nefarious political spectrum of Jair Bolsonaro’s perverse and racist government, which continues to attack us daily, denying our right to exist and inciting the historical sickness that is the racism the Brazilian people still suffers.
We are adrift, without the protection of the Brazilian state, whose constitutional role is being neglected by the current authorities. The federal government is an outlaw government, criminal in its political practice, and operates in a genocidal manner to expel us from our territories, butchering our culture, bleeding our roots.
The state of tension, insecurity and persecution against the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil only increases. We are being attacked, decimated, and it is always worth remembering that an attack on Indigenous life is an attack on humanity itself, since, Indigenous Peoples from around the world, are the defenders of 82% of all global biodiversity.
No more bloodshed!
Enough of impunity!
We demand action be taken immediately and justice to be enforced!
We demand that the right authorities clarify the facts by rigorously punishing these criminals so that the sense of impunity no longer motivates criminal actions against our people, brutally striking Indigenous lives down.
Indigenous Blood: Not a single drop more!
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