⚠️ Crisis in the Yanomami Territory ⚠️
An acute #health crisis is ravaging the #Yanomami people in Brazil's northern #Amazon, one year on from a major government operation intended to rid the area of illegal #goldminers.
More than 300 #Indigenous people have died in the #territory in the last year, most of them children under five.
There are appalling levels of malnutrition, malaria and flu.
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All this is being caused by the presence of thousands of #IllegalGoldminers, who have destroyed and polluted large parts of the #Yanomami territory. They are also responsible for countless #attacks, #rapes and #murders of Yanomami people.
When President #Lula came to power a year ago he launched a major operation to remove the miners. But since then they've been returning in droves, using illegal airstrips to access even remote areas.
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Much of the mining is now controlled by two of #Brazil 's biggest organized crime gangs.
#HealthServices in the area are barely functioning, and nine health posts that should have re-opened are still shut.
President Lula has recently announced new efforts to stop the mining. It's absolutely essential that this is part of a sustained, comprehensive operation to remove the #miners permanently,
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to provide the intensive #healthcare that's so desperately needed – and that this is sustained for the long term.
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