"Shock troops attack Guarani and Kaiowá community in Mato Grosso do Sul, say indigenous people", 24 June 2022

...Indigenous Kaiowá and Guarani people reported, on Friday, 24, that shock troops of the Military Police of Mato Grosso do Sul (PM-MS) attacked, without a court order, the Guarani and Kaiowa community in the municipality of Amambai (351 kilometers from Campo Grande). Videos and photos of injured people from the confrontation were shared on social networks by leaders of the region, who are asking for medical assistance, ambulance, and justice. At least five people were injured and three are missing.

...The episode comes after a group of 30 indigenous people from the region retook part of their ancestral territory Kurupi/São Lucas, in Dourados-Amambai Pegua II and Naviraí.

...Eloy also said that the attacks are part of a reprisal of the ruralists to the struggles for the vote against the Temporal Landmark, suspended again by the Supreme Court (STF).

Anthropological studies have already confirmed the area as traditionally held by the Guarani and Kaiowá who had a declaratory decree published by the Ministry of Justice in 2009 but are awaiting definitive demarcation by the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) and the Presidency of the Republic.

The community, which lives on the side of a highway, claims the Guyraroká Indigenous Land (TI Guyraroká), of approximately 12 thousand hectares, in the municipality of Caarapó. According to leaders, around 24 families live there, totaling approximately 120 people...