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| Makuxi wearing paishara costumes for meeting at Bismark, Raposa Serra
do Sol, Brazil. The meeting with the Minishter of Justice Nelson Jobim,
President of FUNAI Julio Gaiger and State Governor Neudo Campos was to
discuss their land claims. October 1996
© 1996 Fiona Watson/Survival |
Two Truká Indians
were shot dead on 30 June by an undercover police death squad'. The
two men, Adenilson dos Santos and his son Jorge dos Santos, were
at a party on their territory in Cabrobó, Pernambuco state.
When Aurivan dos Santos, leader of the Truká and brother of Adenilson,
went to a police station to make a statement about the killing of his
brother, he was arrested for an alleged cattle theft. The warrant for
his arrest had been issued in 2003.
The Truká fear for the safety of Aurivan dos Santos. They believe their
people have been targeted because they have strong leaders who unifed
their people during their struggle for land, and because they pose a
threat to the organised crime and drug-trafficking organisations that
want to operate on their territory.
