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On 9th January the 70-year old Kuretê Lopez of the Kaiowá Guarani people was killed by a shot in the chest when a group of farmers and armed men drove the Guarani by force from their land in the federal state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
Kuretê Lopez had returned with about 30 families some days before to the traditional land („Tekoha“) of their people in Kurusu Ambá in the federal state of Mato Grosso do Sul after the Indians had lived for many years in an overcrowded reserve. The farmer who had taken over the ownership of the Indians´ land is said to have engaged a private security firm with driving the Kaiowá Guarani away again. The men forced the families to board a lorry and a bus and opened fire, during the course of which Kuretê Lopez was killed. The intimidated families were driven away and put out near a nearby town. The same morning a young Guarani – Valdecir Ximenez – was shot at and had to be taken to hospital.
The murder of Kuretê is just one of a long list of violent acts against members of the Kaiowá Guarani, who have in recent years tried to repossess their land and have been forcibly driven away by farmers. The government has not only failed to officially assign to the Indians the land which is properly theirs, but it has also as a rule taken no action in investigating and prosecuting in the murder cases involving indigenous people. The situation in the federal state of Mato Grosso do Sul is particularly dramatic – nowhere else in Brazil do the indigenous peoples own so little land. And nowhere else do so many Indians die a violent death: in 2006 50 percent of all Indian murder victims in Brazil came from Mato Grosso do Sul!
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