Indigenous Leader Murdered
Masked gunmen assassinated a Guarani shaman and tribal leader in full view of his forest dwelling community in the Brazilian Amazon this week. The man - Nisio Gomez - was in the process of reclaiming his community's ancestral land after being evicted by cattle ranchers.
His murder followed days of the Guarani's roadside camp being circled menacingly by gunmen. Another community member said that: "We'll stay on the camp. We'll all die here. We will not leave our ancestral land."
Some 46,000 Guarani live in Brazil, making them the country's most populous tribe. Their deeply spiritual character involves most communities possessing both a prayer house and a shamanic leader. A central tribal belief is that a place where they can live free of pain and suffering will one day be found by the tribe. A place they call "the land without evil".
Source: www.survivalinternational.org
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