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Illegal miners in Yanomami reservation seek Brazil Government help to leave

Brazil - Yanomami indigenous territory - mining

Brasilia, BrazilReuters Illegal gold miners blamed for causing a humanitarian crisis on Brazil’s largest Indigenous reservation are asking authorities to help them leave, one of their leaders and a Brazilian senator said on Monday. Aware of an imminent military enforcement operation to evict them, Jailson Mesquita, head of the Garimpo e Legal movement (Wildcat Mining Is Legal) […]