Survivors and Indigenous Peoples Report Allegations of a Newspaper Against Damares Alves

19-year-old Kanhu Kamayurá is one of dozens of survivors of infanticide who have been helped by NGO ATINI, an organization accused of "inciting hatred against indigenous peoples as part of a court action involving children ". and published by Folha de São Paulo this Saturday (15).

In an interview with Agora Paraná, Kanhu denies this version. "I saw in the Folha de São Paulo report that they were trying to turn Damares into a bad person, a person who takes children by force of his family." It's nothing like that She was one of the people who saved me.By thanks to her, I am here, thanks to her, I dream, thanks to her, I want to help d & # 39; 39, other Aboriginal children who have the same experience as me, who have the same difficulties.

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According to Kanhu, what the newspaper describes as kidnapping or human trafficking is in a reality intended to help children who lived in poverty, sentenced to death and create conditions for the Aboriginal families themselves.He told the story
of the way in which she and her family left the country. village to ensure their survival. "I am a voice that has not been silenced. I have progressive muscular dystrophy. She had to stay in a hollow, hidden. My parents asked for help for Atini, who helped my family stay in Brasilia for treatment. If I stayed in the village, I would surely be dead. In the village, there is no structure for a girl in a wheelchair, there is no cure, there is no bathroom ",

Kanhu came to town and finished high school last year. "I want to study international relations or social work. Today, I live with my parents in the Brasilia region. My father works outside and my mother takes care of me, "he said.

Folha's report, which echoes that of other vehicles, calls ATINI Minister. "However, Damares Alves is no longer part of this organization since 2015.

Understanding the Case

According to Folha's report, the information relates to a process that takes place in the secrecy of Justice and Concerning an Aboriginal Teenager

What the press does not know is that other children rescued by the NGO have been sentenced to death, Hakani, a daughter of Suruwahá, was buried alive and saved by her brother Bibi, who took charge of her best for three years.

Today, Hakani is 20 years old and lives his own exile in the United States, where he studied at the university.

The subject was treated by the Federal Public Ministry as a "fiction"., after the story of Hak Ani was told in the documentary film "The Story of a Survivor", who led the world.

The issue of Aboriginal infanticide is quite controversial. In 2017, during a public hearing in the House, Gustavo Hamilton of Sousa Menezes, representative of the National Foundation of the Indian (Funai), admitted the existence of the practice of l & # 39; ;infanticide. "We know that here it is said that there are about 20 ethnicities practicing, this is not [10%] nor 10%." We need to raise this issue, these data need to help produce, we must share this interest to reveal what is really happening, "Menezes said.

One of the information highlighted by the documentary is that their vast majority practice infanticide because they understand that their culture is alive and can evolve like any other culture in the world. It has also been shown that some anthropologists felt compelled by anthropologists to kill their children on the grounds that the practice was part of the culture.

The Indian response to this question converges with the recent testimony of President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who has declared this Indian or village doctor, just as any citizen wants access to health. In the three years of research that led to the documentary, indigenous people told journalist Sandra Terena that while there was an active public health system in the village, the indigenous peoples of Brazil wanted to raise their children and their children. to take care of their children.

The story was Kakatsa Kamayurá, who lives in the Federal District. In September of this year, the native rescued from infanticide trained as a nursing technician, with the support of Atini. "My father did not recognize me as a son and my grandmother wanted to bury me alive, but a neighbor of the village asked to take care of me." At age 17, I arrived in town and Atini helped me stay in the capital.Today, I am married and live with my family in a satellite town near Brasilia, "said Kakatsa.

Maíra de Paula Barreto, attorney at Atini, did not want to directly comment on the case of alleged badual abuse within the organization because she was in prison. secret of justice, but guaranteed that there was free persecution and a campaign to reach the new minister without any foundation.

* Contribution of Carlos Moraes, from Brasilia