56 years ago, a report pointed to mistreatment of indigenous people and neglect by the military.
The lack of assistance to indigenous people is the most effective way to kill without leaving a trace, highlighted prosecutor Jader de Figueiredo in a 1967 report.
BBC Brazil "The lack of assistance, however, is the most efficient way to commit murder. Hunger, plague, and mistreatment are striking down brave and strong peoples. The Commission witnessed scenes of hunger, misery, malnutrition, plague, and external and internal parasitosis—scenes that would revolt even the most insensitive individual," revealed the report written 56 years ago, during the military dictatorship, which became known as the Figueiredo Report.
It revealed the genocide of entire communities, torture, abuse, robbery, violence, and cruelty perpetrated against indigenous people in Brazil during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. "The Indian Protection Service degenerated to the point of persecuting them to the point of extermination," the report stated, which remained missing for over 40 years.
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