miners leaving the Yanomami indigenous land

Three aerial corridors were created over the Yanomami indigenous land, in Roraima, by the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) to allow prospectors to leave the area. The airspace was reopened on Monday (6) and will remain that way for a week. At the same time, the federal government has already announced an increase in the number of Federal Police and National Forces in the region. According to the Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, an operation will be carried out to “de-intrude indigenous lands”.

In recent days, the intelligence sectors have identified an increase in the movement of miners trying to leave the region by land and river. The temporary opening of airspace is intended to speed up the departure of these people from the indigenous territory.

“The change in the Air Defense Identification Zone (ZIDA) also adds that aircraft taking off from locations far from these corridors must fly perpendicularly until they enter one of them, and then continue their flight. The corridors are six nautical miles long. (NM) in width, which is equivalent to around 11 kilometers”, informed the FAB to Brazil Agency.

On the issue, Dino said that the government acts on one front to remove the miners from the place and on another to identify the crimes that should be attributed to these people, according to information from the newspaper. The globe.

“Everyone who has committed crimes such as genocide, environmental crimes, mining itself, mining funding, as well as money laundering, and who are being investigated, will continue to be. They are paths that run parallel. On the one hand, we have the disintrusion, the eviction of indigenous lands. On the other hand, we have the investigation”, said the minister during a press conference.