6
Jul
2022
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The situation of indigenous and environmental defenders in Brazil, including the killing of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Madam President, it has been a month since English journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenist Bruno Pereira were brutally murdered in the Amazon they sought to protect. Two lives that join hundreds of other lives that in recent years have been mown down for opposing the predation of the forest and its natural resources. The devastation of Brazilian natural biomes by fire, pollution and machines, the attack on indigenous reserves and land grabbing are mechanisms used by those who make intensive agricultural production, the capture of protected species or mining their way of accumulating wealth. It is their interests that the European Union, beyond the hypocritical proclamations, supports when it insists on trade liberalisation or complicity in destabilising coup forces in Brazil and the region. It will be the Brazilian people who will change the circumstances that will allow us to preserve natural ecosystems and defend the populations that depend on them. From here we express solidarity with the Brazilian democratic and progressive forces that struggle to resume the path of social progress, the sovereign development of cooperation and peace.