After months of campaigning by Survival International…[s]oldiers, field workers from Brazil’s indigenous affairs department FUNAI, Environment Ministry special agents and police officers are being dispatched to notify and remove the illegal settlers, ranchers and loggers – many of whom are heavily armed – from the Awá indigenous territory in the North-Eastern Brazilian Amazon. The operation comes at a crucial time as loggers are closing in on the tribe and more than 30% of the forest has already been destroyed…The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights…also demanded answers from the Brazilian government, having received an urgent petition from Survival and Brazilian NGO CIMI…