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HRD Attack

25 Apr 2022

Aracaçá Yanomami community

Incident date
25 Apr 2022
Date accuracy
All Correct
Aracaçá Yanomami community
Not applicable
Indigenous peoples
Beatings & violence
Target: Group, Organisation or Institution
Location of Incident: Brazil
Other actors

Sources

A 12-year-old girl was raped and killed and a child got lost after being thrown into a river during an attack by illegal miners (garimpeiros) against the Aracaçá Yanomami community in Roraima. The information was provided by the president of the Yanomami and Yek’wana (Condisi-YY) Indigenous Health District Council (Condisi-YY), Júnior Hekurari, on his social network, and confirmed to the report of Amazônia Real.

While most of the indigenous people hunted, the garimpeiros took the opportunity to invade the community. According to the president of Condisi, a woman, a girl and another 4-year-old child were taken by the illegal miners to the illegal gold camp. The teenager was raped. The aunt tried to contain them, but was stopped by the miners who, in a violent act, threw the child into the river, according to Junior. The woman managed to escape by swimming to the community. The community was found burnt and without anyone. According to Júnior Hekurari, the indigenous people were located far from Aracaçá some days later. Furthermore, some of them were found accompanied by illegal miners.

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