Urgent Action: gunmen are mounting attacks - please help!
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BREAKING NEWS: Gunmen in Brazil are rapidly strengthening their reign of terror over Guarani Indians.In recent days, gunmen have carried out a wave of horrific attacks against the Guarani. The attacks are concerted and systematic. A young Guarani leader was murdered, a baby was shot in the head with a rubber bullet, and the houses of Guyra Kambi'y community were attacked and burned down. Shots are being fired daily at the Indians and the situation has become Brazil’s worst humanitarian crisis.
The only thing that can put an end to this senseless violence is for Brazil to make good on its own laws which promise to return all the Guarani’s land from the hands of the ranchers.
That’s why we’re asking you now to step in. Please write to President Rousseff to demand that her government map out Guarani land immediately.
International pressure really does make a difference, your emails can help shame Brazil into taking action before more innocent lives are lost.
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Your Excellency,
I am deeply concerned that your government has failed to map out the territory of the Guarani tribe of Mato Grosso do Sul.
Without their ancestral land, the Guarani cannot survive. Their leaders are being killed one by one, their children are dying of malnutrition and they suffer one of the highest suicide rates in the world.
Please uphold the constitution and demarcate the Guarani's lands immediately, before more lives are lost.
Sincerely,
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