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January 30, 2023

Brazil: Lula Declares Public Health Emergency for Yanomami, Accuses Bolsonaro of "Genocide"
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Brazil's government has declared a public health emergency in the
Yanomami community as severe malnutrition and illness ravage the
nation's largest Indigenous territory, home to some 30,000 people in the
Amazon. The crisis is largely due to the disastrous effects of illegal
gold mining, which have displaced people, devastated the land and
contaminated rivers with mercury. Current President Luiz Inácio Lula da
Silva and other officials have accused former President Jair Bolsonaro
of committing "genocide" by propping up miners and neglecting calls to
help the Yanomami. This is a Yanomami leader.

Junior Yanomami: "The Yanomami people, for four years, we have only been
crying, the community mourning, sick children. And for many times we
asked for help, and it didn't come."



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