Entire Indian tribe threatens to commit mass suicide after Brazil court rules they must leave sacred burial land
Approximately 100 adults and 70 children members of the indigenous tribe Guarani-Kaiow announced this week that they prefer collective death to leave the Cambar’s farm in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, where they settled, than to accept the Federal Court rule that everyone should leave immediately.
The collective death threat, interpreted as a warning of collective suicide, was made in a letter to the Indigenous Missionary Council, which reaffirms that the Indians will not abide by the decision of the court. The Indians say they are not going to leave the region. They call this region 'tekoha' which means ancestral cemetery.
According to the Federal Court's decision, the Indians must leave the farm and if they do not, the National Foundation of Indians, FUNAI, will have to pay a fine of approximately $ 250 per day.
According to the Indians Missionary Council, the Guarani-Kaiowa tribe is known for continuing acts of suicide and almost every six days, one tribesman kills himself, because of the stress of the threat of being evicted from their land.
In the letter sent to Federal Court, they demanded that the decision be over ruled, for the reason that they won't leave the grounds of their ancestors. They also ask that the Justice secure their rights to be buried in these lands, so that even in their dead bed, they will continue to occupy their territory.
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Protest: An ethnic Guarani-Kaiowa Brazilian Indian from the state of Mato Grosso do Sul fixes a cross into the lawn at the Esplanade of Ministries in Brasilia yesterday. His entire tribe of 170 Indians have vowed to commit mass suicide after a court ruled they must leave what they believe is sacred land
VIDEO Brazilian Indians threaten suicide over loss of land
Approximately 100 adults and 70 children members of the indigenous tribe Guarani-Kaiow announced this week that they prefer collective death to leave the Cambar's farm in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, where they settled, than to accept the Federal Court rule that everyone should leave immediately
This, breaks my heart...I can understand their reasoning for this. It's such a shame that the Gov. won't leave them alone, still after so many years, they are still persisting on taking their land. Haven't they taken enough..? Leave them alone, allow them to just be. They don't hurt anyone, and if it hadn't been for Indians, then the white man wouldn't have known a lot of what they did...what they neglected to learn from them, was...PEACE
I completely agree! Why the heck...!? I hate how one group of people can just decide another group of people is less important and take everything that is sacred and important to them. How can you just tell someone, oh, hey, get out of your home and leave? This is sickening...all for the almighty dollar...death to honor.
I completely agree! Why the heck...!? I hate how one group of people can just decide another group of people is less important and take everything that is sacred and important to them. How can you just tell someone, oh, hey, get out of your home and leave? This is sickening...all for the almighty dollar...death to honor.
To many times this has happened where government tells the native people they have to leave and be under the thumb of man's laws on their land. This is sad, no one should be forced to leave the land they know, if we still had this around the world we would be in better shape if we were just able to live on the land and go back to the way things were before all of this modernisation. The native's have sacred traditions and rites and should be allowed to live as they know, not as they are so ordered.
My Blessings to the Native people of this land.
Words cannot describe how sick this makes me to my stomach.
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This is not right. This is disgusting and inhumane. All the Guarani-kaiow want is to live in their ancestral home. To be left alone. This scenerio minus the mass suicice sounds vaugely familiar. What right do these others have to the land? All they want is to tear it apart and line their pockets with more money. They will never have enough. Only those without a heart would stand by as a people kill themselves and not overturn the ruling. Please leave them alone. Money will not feed or cloth you when all the natural resources are gone. It will not give you clean air to breath or clean water to drink. I want this Earth to live but it's people like you who are killing it. For what more money? A bigger house? Greater power? These will not fill the emptiness in your souls.
Hi!
Back here, in Brazil, we are trying to move people to support the Kaiowás. We are starting with a petition, collecting signatures, and we will make a march soon, to give the signatures to our "authorities". If you can, we wiil be glad to receive your support, adding your names to this pettition.
Bellow, is the letter the Kaiowa comunity sent to ou government, translated to english language (sorry about the grammar, english is not my first language), and the link to our pettition.
Thank you very much, and my best regards,
Erik Wroblewski
http://www.peticaopublica.com.br/?pi=P2012N30791
Letter from Guarani-Kaiowá de Pyelito Kue/ Mbarakay-Iguatemi/MS to the Brazilian Government and Federal Justice Depatment.
We (50 men, 50 women and 70 children) from the Guarani-Kaiowá communities descendants of Tekoha Pyelito kue/Mbarakay came, through this letter, present our historical situation and final decision towards the ordered decision expressed by the Federal Justice (department) of Navirai-MS (Brazil), in the process nº 0000032-87.2012.4.03.6006, in September 29, 2012. We received the information that soon our community will be attacked, spanked and expelled from the (Hovy) river bank by force by the Federal Justice (department) of Navirai-MS.
This way, it became evident for us that this act from the Federal Justice (department) of Navirai-MS causes and increase violence against our lives, ignoring our rights of surviving at the bank of Hovy river and near the traditional Pyelito Kue/Mbarakay territory. We clearly understand that this decision of Federal Justice (department) of Navirai-MS is part of a genocide and historical extermination act against the native and autochthon indigenous people from Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil), in other words, this own act of the Federal Justice (department) of Navirai-MS is ravishing and exterminating our lives. We wish to make it clear to the (Brazilian) government and to the Federal Justice (department) that, finally, we lost our hope of survive with dignity and without violence in our ancestral territories, and the we do not believe in the Brazilian Justice. To whom will we denounce the violence practiced against our lives? To which Brazilian justice? If the very Federal Justice (department) is creating and feeding violence against us? We already evaluated our present situation and concluded that we all will die together and soon, we do not have a perspective to live a worthy and just life, here in the river bank or in any other place. We are caped here, 50 meters from the Hovy river where four deaths already happened, where two were through suicide and two resulting from spanking and torture made by gunmen hired by local farmers.
We are living by the Hovy riverbank for one year without any kind of assistance, isolated, surrounded by bandits and we resisted until now. We eat only once per day. We had done this all to recover our ancestral territory Pyelito Kue/Mbarakay. In fact, we know for sure that in the center of this ancient territory our grandparents and grand-grandparents are buried, there are located the graveyards of our ancestors. Knowing this, we wish to executed and buried with our ancestors in this very place where we are now. This way, we are asking to the (Brazilian) Government and to the Federal Justice (department) to not proceed with the expulsion order, but to decree our collective death and to bury us here.
We ask, once and for all, that you decree our decimation and total extinction, and to send some tractors to excavate a great hole to throw and bury our bodies. This is our request to the Federal Judges. We are waiting the Federal Justice (department) decision. Decree the collective death of the Guarani and Kaiowá de Pyeliti Kue/Mbarakay and bury us here, since we decided it as a whole, and we won’t leave this place alive or even dead.
We know we do not stand a chance to survive with dignity anymore in our ancestral homes, and we already suffered too much, and we are being slaughtered and dying very quickly. We know that we will be expelled from the river bank by the Federal Justice (department), but we won’t leave the riverbank. As a historical native and Indian people, we decided simply for collective death right here. We do not have any other option and this is our unanimous decision before the order from the Federal Justice (department) of Navirai-MS.
The words between parenthesis, like (department) are added by me, in an attempt to make some expressions more clear to the English reader. All the rest is the more accurate translation I was capable to produce. I had tried to make it as literally as possible.
Erik Wroblewski
there is no reason for them to be moved sounds some big business wants to build another parking lot or something just an importantvsoundslike some one is BEING PAID OFF could this be true????
For the last time, we are Indigenous not Indian! Get it straight folks!
Is this the whole story? Why did they rule to move the people in the first place? I have yet to hear anything that explains this. And has their Government offered these people another place to relocate to? Or is this is a straight up eviction and find your own way scenario?
This move could change their culture. Something that can not be regained. At what cost to these people, families. Isn't anyone willing to listen to them. A sacred land and that issue is being ignored and all those lives. Linda d
Humanity has to wake up. There is On Earth only, same, as one Humanity. We all share responsibility. Anything "shitstem" does against Life, in every meaning possible, sooner or later, hurts us all. It is our universal sin, that People wants to kill themselfs, to wake us up.
makes since to me.kill your self,that will teach them for evicting you.with an attitude like that i can see why they would gat evicted.no fear ofGod.just people who will murder innocent kids.they need to be busted up and sent to prison.i dont fell sorry for child killers who cant decide for them self,just a bunch of brain washed idiots
Why should these people be relocated, it is their ancestral land, their right, what happened to their democratic rights, to live on the land of their ancestors and maintain their way of life ? Just because they are not consumed with power, greed and money, does not mean their way of life is inferior or uncivilised.
The Brazilian Government's argument seems to be that other countries have treated their indigenous people atrociously, so you cannot tell us,we will not rise above and learn from anyone's elses mistakes. Woe to the Downpressor they will eat the bread of sorrow, dedicate this song to all the oppressed peoples of the world.
"Guiltiness" Bob Marley
Guiltiness (talkin' 'bout guiltiness)
Pressed on their conscience. Oh yeah.
And they live their lives (they live their lives)
On false pretence everyday -
each and everyday. Yeah.
These are the big fish
Who always try to eat down the small fish,
just the small fish.
I tell you what: they would do anything
To materialize their every wish. Oh yeah-eah-eah-eah.
Say: Woe to the downpressors:
They'll eat the bread of sorrow!
Woe to the downpressors:
They'll eat the bread of sad tomorrow!
Woe to the downpressors:
They'll eat the bread of sorrow!
Oh, yeah-eah! Oh, yeah-eah-eah-eah!
Guiltiness
Pressed on their conscience. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
These are the big fish
Who always try to eat down the small fish,
just the small fish.
I tell you what: they would do anything
To materialize their every wish. Oh, yeah-eah-eah-eah-eah-eah.
But: Woe to the downpressors:
They'll eat the bread of sorrow!
Woe to the downpressors:
They'll eat the bread of sad tomorrow!
Woe to the downpressors:
They'll eat the bread of sad tomorrow!
Oh, yeah-eah! Oh yeah-e-e-e-e-e!
Guiltiness. Oh yeah. Ah!
They'll eat the bread of sorrow everyday.
Isnt sacred land considered the same as a cemetary? Governments are taking over and they dont care about the people.. How disrespectful and inhumane it is to tell these people to leave.. All in the name of money and power.
leave them people alone!! haven't you ripped their land enough?
what greedy sick people the government are!!
Leave them the hell alone! As Chief Seathl of the Suwashish Tribe said to the President of the United States of America in 1854! How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us! If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water how can you buy them! Evey part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore,every mist in the dark woods,every clearing,and every humming insect is holy to my people. The sap that courses through the trees carries memories of the red man. Whatever befalls the the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of in it! So continue to contaminate your bed and one day you will drown in your own waste! There is a whole lot more to the letter but this sticks in my mind! What I have just wrote! Last part of the letter says! Even the white man cannot be exemept from the common destiny. We may be brothers after all. We shall see! Stay off their land and leave them alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This madness must stop. Colonialism is over! We have the right to our own land!
SOUNDS FAMILIAR ISNT THIS A REPEAT OF SO MANY OTHER INDIGENIOUS PEOPLES LIVES, HAVING THE 1%ers LINING WHAT NOW, CAUSE THEIR POCKETS SURE ARE FULL. SOOOO SICK
This has to stop!!!!!!
Greed rules this world and greed will kill all of us!
Let these people live in dignity and stop moving them.
Every human beeing needs a place to belong to.
United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People.. the Government needs to read it!!!
My prayers go out for these people. So sad, and depressing that we live in a world were so much hatred rules.
Money really is the root of all evil.......These people have every right to stay in their home. To contemplate suicide shows the extent of their despair. governments, companies etc. have to respect life in all forms,,,,, You won't be able to eat,drink or breath money !
If the members of the government who is telling these people to get out had the tables turned on them and were told to leave *their* homes and *their* land, I'll bet they wouldn't like it. These indigenous people have been on this land for how long now???? I think they have a right to it. Their families and homes, lives and history are there. That land is as much a part of them as they are of it.
Why does the government want then to leave? What resources are there that the government or private industry war? It is time for the governments in any of the Americas to stop screwing the Indigenous peoples. Perhaps i is time for all the indigenous people of the America's to rise up and unite as one political power. Put away our differences and unite m uch like the Iroquois confederation was., Then maybe they will listen to us....We are Still Strong....
This is wrong,wrong,wrong, have those in power no souls to begin with or do they lose them when in office ? Oil, money and power versus the people.Will we ever learn, A true human being regardless of sex, colour or creed knows this is not the way forward.How can they be so short sighted ?My thoughts and prayers are with these people.I do understand their reasoning,but I sincerely hope they win this somehow,maybe with a little help from some of the more enlightened South American countries.
Je suis triste, très trite de vous savoir en danger. Si je peux par quelqu'action changer le cours des choses dites-le moi. Je serais heureuse de pouvor contribuer a votre survie
Leave these indiginous people in peace. Let them live on the sacred land of their people. What the government is doing to them is no more or less than mass murder. All so some wealthy can line their pocketbooks with more money.
This is very sad, the white man should leave the indigenous folks alone - they have the right to stay where they will!!!!!! Haven't we all learned from the past???? And if you will, a life in a capitalism dictatorship isn't worth living it in the first place, I agree!!!!! The white people on this earth did by far enough damage with their greed and hunger for power - it's still time to make a change!!!!!! Greetz from a white woman in Germany that still got some common sense......
STOP THIS GREED, SICK, CORRUPT, DERANGED GOVT!! Indigenous People have graced their ancestral lands from time immemorial. Their land is Sacred. You want land, to clear, to build, to desecrate ? Go someplace else, a desert where no one lives perhaps. How dare you encroach on someone's property and evict them. Don't incur the wrath of God or curse of the land. Repent, you evildoers and plunderers. My prayers and love will remain for the people of the land, Keep courage and crusade till the end.
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When have the powerful listened to the righteous people of the land? The worm of greed has eaten the hearts and soul from the oppressive grabbers. Their lives carry the rot of hell.
I am disgusted at this move to remove these people from their land. I am sure that there is some form of greed behind it.
I encourage folk from every country to raise their voice in protest. No, I will not be annonymous either. We should both pray and act on their behalf.
Why why why?..because this is the way modern ideology has made money and gathered ¨power. They did it to the amerindio people, to the australindio, now with palestinians. Big boss wants to kill them all. Avery time they see natives still living,big boss and zijn maffia soldiers are confronted with the devil within themseselfs. To those davils are Oil, minerals etc... more important than native´s life. When a not native try to help they are beaten up, arrested and even killed.