“Brazil: Gold miners attack indigenous people in Amazon”, 27 May 2021

...Indigenous Munduruku people in Brazil said on Wednesday attacks by illegal gold miners on their leaders were continuing. A police operation had earlier attempted to remove the illegal squatting by miners on the land of the indigenous Munduruku and Yanomami people…Miners fired at a village of the Munduruku group, and burned down the house of one of their leaders, Brazil's main indigenous organization said. "Criminals are terrorizing the leaders of the Munduruku people for opposing illegal mining. In an act of terrorism they torched the home of (Munduruku leader) Maria Leusa Kaba and are continuing to threaten other people in reprisal for the Federal Police operation in the region to kick out invaders," said Sonia Guajajara, a leader of the Association of Brazil's Indigenous Peoples (APIB)...Brazil's top court had ordered the protection of indigenous groups, whose communities in the Amazon forest are threatened by wildcat mining. Federal police launched an operation against illegal mining on land belonging to the Munduruku and Sai Cinza people near the town of Jacareacanga on Tuesday…However, there were reports of protesting miners trying to destroy police vehicles and equipment, with authorites saying they were surprised "by a group of miners protesting the operation that protected indigenous lands"...