Current Events > Illegal loggers kill Amazon indigenous warrior who guarded forest, wound other

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/illegal-loggers-kill-amazon-indigenous-175335680.html

Illegal loggers in the Amazon ambushed an indigenous group that was formed to protect the forest and shot dead a young warrior and wounded another, leaders of the Guajajara tribe in northern Brazil said on Saturday.

Paulo Paulino Guajajara, or Lobo (which means 'wolf' in Portuguese), was hunting on Friday inside the Arariboia reservation in Maranhao state when he was attacked and shot in the head. Another Guajajara, Laercio, was wounded but escaped, they said.

The clash comes amid an increase in invasions of reservations by illegal loggers and miners since right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro took office this year and vowed to open up protected indigenous lands to economic development.

"The Bolsonaro government has indigenous blood on its hands," Brazil's pan-indigenous organization APIB, which represents many of the country's 900,000 native people, said in a statement on Saturday.

"The increase in violence in indigenous territories is a direct result of his hateful speeches and steps taken against our people," APIB said.

APIB leader Sonia Guajajara said the government was dismantling environmental and indigenous agencies, and leaving tribes to defend themselves from invasion of their lands.

"It's time to say enough of this institutionalized genocide," she said in a post on Twitter.

Brazil's federal police said they had sent a team to investigate the circumstances of Paulino Guajajara's death. APIB said his body was still lying in the forest where he was killed.

The Guajajaras, one of Brazil's largest indigenous groups with some 20,000 people, set up the Guardians of the Forest https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-environment-forest-guardians-w/fighting-fire-with-fire-amazon-forest-guardians-stalk-illegal-loggers-idUSKBN1W51CR in 2012 to patrol a vast reservation. The area is so large that a small and endangered tribe, the Aw Guaj, lives deep in the forest without any contact with the outside world.

Paulino Guajajara, who was in his twenties and leaves behind one son, told Reuters in an interview http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-environment-forest-guardians-w/fighting-fire-with-fire-amazon-forest-guardians-stalk-illegal-loggers-idUSKBN1W51CR on the reservation in September that protecting the forest from intruders had become a dangerous task, but his people could not give in to fear.

"I'm scared at times, but we have to lift up our heads and act. We are here fighting," he said, as he and other warriors prepared to move through the forest towards a logging camp.

"We are protecting our land and the life on it, the animals, the birds, even the Aw who are here too," Paulino Guajajara said at the time. "There is so much destruction of Nature happening, good trees with wood as hard as steel being cut down and taken away."

"We have to preserve this life for our children's future," he said.

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Eventually we are going to have to invade Brazil or at least assassinate Bolsonaro to deal with this. The Amazon rainforest provides 20% of all the oxygen on the planet. If it gets cut down our species dies. Imgine sprinting as fast as you can for as long as you can and then when you stop younare sucking in oxygen trying to breath. If the rainforest gets cut down that is what it will be like for everyone everywhere on the planet all the time. This will need to be stopped at some point and most likely violence will be the only solution.
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Wonder Woman?
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BilalPowell posted...

Wonder Woman?

princess mononoke
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LepartialJury posted...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/9005835/Loggers-burned-Amazon-tribe-girl-alive.html

What the fuck.
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Another one? When will Bezos be held accountable for the safety of his employees?
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This has been constantly happening for the past two or three decades and its been getting worse.

Theyll burn little girls or murder nuns, they dont give a f***
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Its literally 2019. Why are these silly fucks with spears a thing?

Burning down rainforests and slaughtering natives to trigger the libs
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That seems pretty fucked

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Wow @ post 10

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Jesus. Why arent the people with the power to do so doing something to stop this and help safeguard these places as natural reserves?
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Shablagoo posted...

Jesus. Why arent the people with the power to do so doing something to stop this and help safeguard these places as natural reserves?

Because they're actively encouraging this shit?

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Shablagoo posted...

Jesus. Why arent the people with the power to do so doing something to stop this and help safeguard these places as natural reserves?

The president of Brazil literally ran on a platform of destroying the Amazon. People voted for this.

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Duncanwii posted...

The president of Brazil literally ran on a platform of destroying the Amazon. People voted for this.

He also straight up said he was going to slaughter the indigenous

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This is what Brazil voted for. Bolsonaro made no secret of his great dislike of the indigenous tribes inhabiting the Amazon.

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boxington posted...

APIB leader Sonia Guajajara said the government was dismantling environmental and indigenous agencies, and leaving tribes to defend themselves from invasion of their lands.

Take a lesson from that time George Custer tried to start shit.

Tldr
Are these like those tribal people without tech?

What a shame it would be if military intervention suddenly wiped out the loggers...

SpudForce posted...

This is what Brazil voted for. Bolsonaro made no secret of his great dislike of the indigenous tribes inhabiting the Amazon.

Wow... That's disgusting.

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TheMikh posted...

BilalPowell posted...

Wonder Woman?

princess mononoke

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MC_BatCommander posted...

SpudForce posted...

This is what Brazil voted for. Bolsonaro made no secret of his great dislike of the indigenous tribes inhabiting the Amazon.

Wow... That's disgusting.

"Take what he has and give it to me!" isn't really tied to any specific political leaning, in the end.

Bolsonaro has made it no secret that he believes the native tribes of the Amazon are little better than Stone age primitives occupying valuable land that they don't deserve and are standing in the way of Brazil's economic development.

https://www.survivalinternational.org/articles/3540-Bolsonaro

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Its like the reverse of one of those cannibal movies.
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