Brazil's health official urges military to kick out armed gold miners believed to be behind starvation deaths of Yanomami tribal people
In four years of Bolsonaro's presidency, 570 Yanomami children died of curable diseases, mainly malnutrition but also malaria, diarrhea and malformations caused by mercury in rivers.
Tapeba said 700 members of the community were going hungry, and healthcare is non-existent due to the presence of well-armed gold miners that scared away medical workers from the health post and block people from bringing in supplies of medicine and food. "It's an extreme calamity, many Yanomami are suffering from malnutrition and there is a total absence of the Brazilian state," Tapeba said.An invasion by more than 20,000 wildcat gold miners has contaminated the rivers with mercury that has poisoned the fish the Yanomami eat he said, citing children with their hair falling out due to the mercury used to separate gold from ore.
The reservation has been invaded by illegal gold miners for decades, but the incursions have multiplied since Bolsonaro won office in 2018, promising to allow mining on previously protected indigenous lands and offering to legalise wildcat mining.
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