Ministry wants survey of improvements to the Tenondé Porã Indigenous Land to be launched within a month
O MPF (Federal Public Ministry) filed an action this Thursday (22.Sep.2022) that asks for the resumption of the demarcation of the Tenondé Porã Indigenous Landin São Paulo, for the Funai (National Indian Foundation).
As informed via communiquéthe ministry wants the foundation is obliged to set up, within 30 days, a technical group to carry out a survey of improvements in the indigenous land, with the presentation of the results within 180 days.
The foundation collected data on 22 properties in 2018 and intended to continue the survey the following year, when approximately 149 more occupancies would be evaluated. However, work was not resumed.
When charged by the MP, Funai said that work would resume “in due course”according to the statement.
The agency has sought to intensify contact with Funai since the Ministry of Justice recognized the possession of the territory as belonging to indigenous peoples, in 2016. However, as the MPF said, the attempts “they were frustrated”.
“Funai’s default, justified by an alleged administrative discretion (‘opportune moment’), actually reveals itself, in the light of the Constitution and other normative commands, as an illegal omission of proportions capable of causing the death of indigenous people in imminent danger with threats and conflicts existing in the indigenous land”said the prosecutor of the Republic Suzana Fairbanks, who is responsible for the MPF’s action.
Despite the definition of the Tenondé Porã Indigenous Land as belonging to the natives, there are still conflicts with the non-indigenous occupants of the region.
The MPF said that Funai “it only carried out partial surveys for the removal of these occupants and did not present any estimate of when it intends to proceed with the activities”.
The ministry also argues that, due to the delay in data collection, the peoples who inhabit the territory “they remain subject to the risks that this delay brings”.
The Tenondé Porã Indigenous Land covers 15,900 hectares and is located in the region between the cities of São Paulo, São Bernardo do Campo, Mongaguá and São Vicente.
At the end of 2021, the Yvyrupa Guarani Commission, which represents villages in the South and Southeast of the country, reported that non-indigenous occupants threaten the holders of the territory to leave the land. There were records of destruction of houses and even gunshots.
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