By Tom Phillips / The Guardian, Rondonia state, BrazilMore than 30 bullet holes told Awapu Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau a sinister tale. “Nobody wants to die.”The slow-burn assault on Brazil’s indigenous lands did not begin in January with Bolsonaro’s far-right presidency. “Not since the dictatorship have Brazil’s indigenous peoples felt as threatened as they do now,” said Randolfe Rodrigues, a progressive senator from Amapa, another of the Amazon’s nine states. Fatima Cleide, a prominent Workers’ party politician in Rondonia, said indigenous communities stood at a historic and perilous juncture. Marcos Rocha, Rondonia’s Bolsonarista governor, claimed opening supposedly impoverished indigenous communities to mining would bring “dignity.”“Indians want to grow and to develop, just like any human being.

Source: Taipei Times October 06, 2019 16:07 UTC