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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: BRAZIL: GOLD MINERS RE-INVADE INDIGENOUS RESERVE
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- ** Topic: IPS: Brazil's gold miner invasion - **
- ** Written 11:37 am Jan 1, 1993 by caribdesk in cdp:reg.carib **
- From: Bob Thomson <caribdesk>
- Subject: IPS: Brazil's gold miner invasion - Guyana next?
-
- /* Written 12:13 am Dec 31, 1992 by newsdesk@igc.apc.org in igc:ips.englibrary */
- /* ---------- "BRAZIL: GOLD PROSPECTORS RE-INVADE " ---------- */
- Copyright Inter Press Service 1992, all rights reserved. Permission to re-
- print within 7 days of original date only with permission from 'newsdesk'.
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- Reference: Commodities; Asia, southern
- Title: BRAZIL: GOLD PROSPECTORS RE-INVADE INDIGENOUS RESERVE
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- rio de janeiro, dec 28 (ips) -- nearly 11,000 brazilian gold
- prospectors or 'garimpeiros' are reported to have returned, over
- the past few months, to the yanomami indian reserve in the state
- of roraima, on the border between brazil and venezuela.
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- the latest invasion of indian territories by the 'garimpeiros'
- began at the end of the rainy season, in september, when hundreds
- of gold miners began returning to roraima to rebuild jungle
- airstrips destroyed two years ago by the authorities, as part of
- a government effort to oust them from the indian reserve.
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- according to the president of the national indian foundation
- (funai), sidney possuelo, large numbers of 'garimpeiros' are now
- scattered throughout the yanomami territories.
-
- in 1991, the brazilian government turned over 94,000 square
- kilometres of land to some 9,000 yanomami indians to create an
- indigenous reserve and deployed army and police units to expel
- about 30,000 gold miners from the area and destroy their
- airstrips.
-
- possuelo said the authorities had failed to take the necessary
- measures to prevent the likely return of 'garimpeiros' and said
- the government had not responded to funai's requests for stricter
- controls.
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- funai's lack of resources prompted the withdrawal of police
- units from the reserve as well as the withdrawal of 240 doctors
- and nurses who were working to combat a variety of diseases
- spread to indigenous groups by the arrival of the 'garimpeiros'.
-
- indigenous leader david yanomami, who will represent brazil's
- native groups at a un meeting in january to inaugurate the
- international year of indigenous peoples, said the creation of
- the reserve was merely a ''propaganda exercise'' by the brazilian
- government prior to the june earth summit in rio de janeiro.
- (ends/ips/trd-sp/rb/cs/cg/92)
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