They denounce human rights violations and risk of genocide to native peoples in Brazil

The indigenous people of the Amazon travel daily along a path destroyed by machines, with cut trees and water that turns red and poisonous. All that world that they thought they knew has disappeared before their eyes overnight, this is the situation that he exhibited this week before the UN Human Rights Council, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, United Nations adviser for the prevention of genocide.

Although for years the peoples of the Amazon, such as the Yanomami and Guarani, have had to migrate due to the devastation of their lands, this migratory phenomenon has not been addressed and is even a still unnamed cause of migration according to Vladimir Aguilar, director of the Working Group on Indigenous Affairs of the Universidad de los Andes.

“He great risk that they run these towns is the expansion of the border extractivist in the amazon. In generalHE can already talk of a luck of genocide silent by all are activities systematic that the are affecting”, indicates Aguilar.

For Aguilar, “the Alto Comitted for the nations united goes to have that look for a new category for all he process of displacement that are suffering some populations and communities natives by this expansion dizzying and voracious of the border extractivist”.

This silent genocide is a paradox in international politics to mitigate global warming, since it is the indigenous peoples of the Amazon that preserve natural resources, but are unprotected in the face of the agricultural maelstrom, the extraction of fossil fuels and mining.

According to Aguilar, “the mining illegal is an advance of what subsequently going to be the mininglegalbecause unfortunately the governments amazonian they have opted by boost mining illegal so that a time That discover which are the minerals that there is in the territories, HE deliver the concessions to companies national and transnational”.

Aguilar referred to this phenomenon as a “perversion” and a mechanism whatEU HE this implementing in the amazon. “Going to urge a new category by these new pfrictionsy are new realities that we are seeingwhich some authors they have called the geopolitics of the change climate”.

Migration due to the destruction of regions due to industrial causes and the effects of climate change is a phenomenon that currently lacks international regulations, which displaces more than 20 million people each year, according to UNHCR.