On 23rd July 2019, a group of heavily armed miners invaded indigenous territory in the North East of Brazil, close to the border with French Guyana, and stabbed indigenous leader, Emyra Wajãpi, to death.  Civil society organisations and international institutions such as the United Nations have called for an immediate investigation of the case, accusing Bolsonaro´s administration of inciting this type of violence by encouraging the invasion of indigenous territories for economic activities such as resource extraction.