Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul slide image

Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul

+ INDIGENIST MISSIONARY COUNCIL - CIMI Marçal de Souza Tupã- I (1920-1983) November 25 of 2013 it was 30 years ago that Marçal Tupã-i, the voice of thunder, Guarani Nhandeva, was assassinated in the village of Campestre, in Antônio João, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Five shots fired at gun point took his life, when he opened the door of his house hearing an insisting and supplication voice that asked for medicine for an ailing father. The health worker Marçal believed and fulfilled the destiny that he himself foresaw some years earlier: "I am a person marked to die. But for a just cause, we die!" He was a member of delegation that handed a letter to Pope John Paul II in his visit to Manaus, in 1980, and also represented the Union of Indigenous Nations in UN-conference in Boston in 1981. His political activity resulted in persecution, arrests, and death threats. After the accused were acquited twice, the lawyers of Marçal's family succeeded in having the competence of the federal courts to judge the case recognized. However, at this time, the accused were over seventy years old and could not be tried again. One of the participants was never brought to trial. Marçal said, more than 30 years ago: "We indians, who live here are the ones who feel the injustice, the poverty, the persecution, hunger, because the area we occupy no longer offers conditions for our survival..." 1 "The green of the flag that the Brazilians brought represented the forest that civilization has torn from us; we live on government lands, like pariahs, crushed. The yellow, represented the wealth of Brazil, the fish and game, today absent from our land; they tore everything from us, all in the name of civilization. The white, which symbolized the peace so desired, today is absent in man kind. And, finally, the blue, which represented the sky, in its florescent beauty - stars and planets shining -, was the only thing that civilization left to the indian, and only because she hasn't managed to conquer it, yet ... "Marçal de Souza Tupã-i. 1 (Prezia, Benedito - Marçal Guarani: the voice that cannot be forgotten). For Them, To Them, With Them, As Them... For their lives! For their lands! Cimi
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