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Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul

INDIGENIST MISSIONARY COUNCIL - CIMI tume "Discrimination and ethnic hatred, ideas encouraged even by the media, particularly accentuate the problem of suicides. The natives are painted as obstacles, setbacks, obstacles to development. It's as if the media sent the message 'If you want to live well, take the indigenous out of your way', says the Attorney. It is important to put a numerical coincidence between the indigenous murders and suicides in Mato Grosso do Sul. In the year 2007 the Cimi recorded 92 murders of indigenous people in Brazil, being 53 in Mato Grosso do Sul. For Cimi, in an interval of 10 years - 2003 to 2012 - the cases of murders increase in 2007. To give an idea, they jump from 28 cases in 2006 to 53 in 2007, going to 42 in 2008 and after that the numbers remain at a level of 30 murders. Considering the data of suicides of Sesai in Mato Grosso do Sul, there is a high point on the curve in the year 2008, recording 59 cases. In 2007 were 40, and 42 in 2009. You cannot establish a cause-and-effect relationship, not a direct relationship between murders and suicides of the Guarani-Kaiowá in Mato Grosso do Sul. However, these two categories of data, murders and suicides, are present in the reality of this people, so that, plus the attempted murders, form the basis of the context of greater violence on an indigenous people in Brazil. Many studies and analyses have already been made regarding the disturbing rate of suicides among the Guarani-Kaiowa- youth. For Sesai, variations of the suicides rates observed in the population Guarani-Kaiowá present trend of 90 to 75 cases per 100 thousand, in the range of 14 years (2000-2013). These rates are approximately 20 times superiors to the national rate. Many studies point to the fact that the suicide, even if it is an universal phenomenon, present in time and social spaces in the entire history of humanity, increased in modernity. For indigenous peoples, the rates are higher in many countries, such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada and United States, among others, when compared to national rates. Scholars and people involved with the indigenous cause are concerned about the reasons that lead to these high rates of suicides among the natives. Everyone agrees that a set of factors must be linked to the understanding of a very complex phenomenon. Loss of cultural and historical links, abuse and dependence on drugs and alcohol, mental problems, sexual abuse, family separations, isolation in social life and in the family, stress and weakening of the cultural beliefs and spiritual system are risk factors, studied by many authors and cited in the study of the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) and the International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA). In the analysis about the Guarani-Kaiowá, in that same study, we find the following statement: "you can summarize that: indigenous youth of today live without family support, with ephemeral friends, without knowing their place, living from day to day without hardly ever conjugating the verb in the future, the maximum is the very near future of tomorrow. Carry a humanitarian trauma full of stories told by their relatives, stories of exploitation, violence, deaths, loss of dignity, in short, the recent history of many indigenous peoples. Stories full of trauma, attached to a gift of frustration and impotence. In these circumstances, these young people are the product of what they call a generation suffering from what is called post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) "4 22
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