Guarani celebrate court victory
A tribunal has ruled that the Guarani Kaiowá community of Paso Piraju should not be evicted from their land.
A tribunal has ruled that the Guarani Kaiowá community of Paso Piraju should not be evicted from their land.
Guarani Indians facing eviction from their land have warned of a bloodbath. The Indians are to be forced to return to the roadside where they lived in miserable conditions before 2004.
Two Guarani infants from the community of Ñanderú Marangatú died last week, bringing the number of deaths due to their eviction from their land in December to seven.
At least twenty Tupinikim and Guarani Indians were seriously wounded last week when 120 federal police attempted to evict them from their land on behalf of the company Aracruz Cellulose.
The shooting of Guarani Kaiowá leader Dorvalino Rocha by hired gunmen on Christmas Eve brought the number of Brazilian Indians murdered in 2005 to thirty-eight the highest figure in eleven years.
Over one hundred federal police evicted the Guarani-Kaiowa Indians of Ñanderú Marangatú, Mato Grosso do Sul, from their land yesterday morning.
A federal tribunal has ordered the eviction of the Guarani-Kaiowa Indians of Ñanderú Marangatú within the next few days.
A Brazilian appeals court ruled last week that the Guarani Ñandeva Indians of Yvy Katu can keep their land.