Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul
INDIGENIST MISSIONARY COUNCIL - CIMI
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THE VIOLENCE IN NUMBERS AND GRAPHS
The numbers are shocking, the cases horrifying, the humiliation
an outrage. It is the most serious case of violence and disrespect
for human rights against indigenous people in Brazil. Who commits
it? Progress, development, the law agribusiness, that is to say, all
that is today most cherished in Brazil.
Meanwhile, the children suffer from malnutrition because their
parents cannot plant, their lives dependent on the distribution of
the 'basic food basket' program, official beneficiary income, and
are all being made to wait for the next month. To wait? Is this the
destiny of the Guarani and Kaiowá? The answer is no: they struggle
for their rights, pray, and they raise their children and succeed in
living with joy. The situation of violence involves many factors;
analyzed here are some of these factors with the objective of
establishing the most important aspects of the current context
that involves the misfortune of this people.
Murders of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil and in Mato Grosso do Sul - 2003 to 2013 Years
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Total Média
Mato Grosso do Sul (MS)
13
16
28
28
53
42
33
34
32
37
33
349
31
Rest of Brazil
29 21
15
30
39 18 27
26
19
23
20
267
24
Total Brazil
42
37
43
58
92
60
60
60
51
60
53
616
56
MS (% of murders)
31%
43%
65% 48%
58%
70%
55% 57%
63%
62%
62%
57% 55%
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