'The military dictatorship was prolific in decimating indigenous people, and Bolsonarism was just an extension of it,' says Carla Jimenez.
Journalist points to military responsibility for the "torture policy" imposed on indigenous people: "Yanomami Holocaust is a military project"
247 - Journalist Carla Jimenez, in an article published in The Intercept Brazil On Wednesday (25), she stated that the "Yanomami Holocaust is a military project". She described as "terrifying" the photographs of Yanomami babies, children and elderly people in skin and bones, victims of malnutrition, disease and "a policy of torture".
Carla Jimenez points out that "the military dictatorship was prolific in decimating indigenous people in the name of 'progress'—Bolsonarism was merely its extension. There are accounts of military personnel who enriched themselves in the past through economic development at any cost, buying land in the Amazon for a pittance. Thousands of indigenous and quilombola people were silently killed by the military governments, a fact not accounted for in official history, and for this reason, the image of the 'soft dictatorship' persists."
She also points out that in the "Brazilian imagination," the military are "heroes" and the indigenous people are forgotten. "We are completely ignorant about our ancestors. I learned in my (private) school days to sing more military hymns, like the Song of the Expeditionary, than songs originating from indigenous culture. It was this upbringing that forged the Brazilian imagination that legitimizes the military as heroes and erases the suffering imposed on indigenous people. We like to display and highlight our Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish ancestry, and we hide our indigenous, gypsy, and black roots."
The journalist says that "the PT government is doing its part, but it's not entirely innocent, with its Growth Acceleration Programs and hydroelectric dam plans in the Amazon – like the Belo Monte Dam, which condemned populations to urban violence and the contamination of rivers that were once their source of food. These were the concessions given to the rural lobby and the false evangelical Christians. Nothing, obviously, comparable to the cruelty of the Bolsonaro era and its legion of parasites. Damares Alves and her hypocritical, mythomaniac crusade can attest to that."
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