The indigenous Juma Xipaia, chief of the Karimaa village, in Pará, said on her social media that the Xipaya indigenous territory was invaded this Wednesday (14) by prospectors on a ferry.
According to her account, published on her social media, the invaders used violence against her father, who recorded the movement with a cell phone.
“They are invading our territory. They entered with a supergiant raft. They acted violently with my father. They tried to take his cell phone, because he was filming. Warriors are coming down to ask them to leave the territory,” said Juma.
“We are very scared. I am here to die from the heart. Very distressed because I don’t know what will happen to my relatives”, she said.
This Thursday (15), Juma published a new video reporting that the ferry had moved away from the village.
“It was very fast. When they left for the chestnut grove in the morning, there was no more [balsa]. It was a double-decker ferry. Large and expensive equipment. There’s a big funder behind it,” she said.
The Federal Public Ministry in Pará and federal deputy Joênia Wapichana (Rede-RR), coordinator of the parliamentary front for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, said that they were monitoring the situation and informed the competent bodies. The Federal Police and Funai have yet to comment.
The report comes three days after the death of two Yanomami indigenous people in a conflict with members of another village accompanied, according to reports, by miners.
“Along with the miners, the Tirei community attacked the Pixanehabi community, where two Yanomami died,” said the president of the Yanomami and Ye’kuana District Council for Indigenous Health, Júnior Hekurar Yanomami, in a video released by the G1 portal.
According to him, the residents of the attacked community are against mining, an activity that is illegal on indigenous lands. “That’s why the miners gave 80 weapons to the Tirei community, encouraging conflict.”
