Invaders storm Indigenous Amazon land, threatening isolated people

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Nearly 200 people invaded Brazil's Ituna/Itatá Indigenous Land in Pará state since mid-August, breaking through Funai gates and setting up camps in territory reserved for uncontacted Indigenous peoples; the number later swelled to around 500.

The invasions followed the state's creation of the overlapping Bacajaí Environmental Protection Area, a law introduced in June and passed unanimously within a month, which federal prosecutors say created legal confusion exploited by land-grabbers.

Federal prosecutors have filed suit demanding deployment of federal forces, warning of 'imminent risk' to the isolated Igarapé Ipiaçava people, while a local mayor celebrated the occupation on Instagram as a 'Promised Land.'

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A local mayor throwing a barbecue to celebrate the erasure of protections for an uncontacted people is the kind of detail that would seem satirical if it weren't sourced to his own Instagram. Calling something an 'environmental protection area' while it dismantles a shield against genocide is the sort of doublespeak that deserves to be quoted back at everyone who voted for it.

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