Yanomami Genocide: Indigenous Association says Denarium was “accomplice” of the tragedy

The Hutukara Yanomami Association, an organization that represents the Yanomami people, published a note in which it repudiates the words of the governor of the state of Roraima, Antonio Denarium (PP), about the indigenous people needing to “acculturate”. For the entity, Denarium has been “accomplice of the tragedy” and maintains a colonizer view.

“While the Yanomami people live one of the biggest crises in their history, which has been denounced in recent years by the Hutukara Yanomami Association, the governor Denarium not only denies reality, but argues that indigenous people “have to become acculturated, can no longer stay in the middle of the forest, looking like animals,” says the association.

“Our ways of life are denied to us as if we were primitive, incapable, inhuman. Far from being limited to political discourse, this thinking has been reflected in policies of genocidal tendency that have been systematically implemented in recent years to make it impossible for the Yanomami to maintain their lives,” states the association.