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  You should bring your message to North Sentinel Island in person. They'll love you.
context: A similar operation had already been done in the 90's, but in the last years the government simply turned a blind eye to what was happening. Brazil has enough resources, knowledge and institutions to combat that situation, letting it come to this point was a (possibly criminal) political choice. >
  
  The illegal gold miners not only violate human rights and destroy the environment but also spread disease and endanger the health and lives of the Yanomami community. It's crucial to hold them accountable for their actions. >
  
  The news out of Brazil lately has been such a breath of fresh air. Lula has been exceeding expectations. >
  
  I'm also enjoying the absence of dick-heads whining about what a corrupt extremist Lula is. >
  
  he is definetely a fucking corrupt though >
  
  Every single politician is corrupt. What did Lula do to get his conviction overturned? I have no idea, but I'm 99% sure it was illegal. Maybe also unethical by most definitions.
  The difference is some politicians use their power to reduce deforestation rates by 80%, protect Indigenous populations, and give food to poor kids, while others use it to line their own pockets, build cults of personality, and irreversibly harm the global climate. And while I can't say I support people doing illegal/unethical things to put themselves back into power, I also think the Lula case highlights why any legal system that puts down a man who uses his power to help others deserves as much skepticism as the man himself. >
  
  
  Every single politician is corrupt. What did Lula do to get his conviction overturned? I have no idea, but I'm 99% sure it was illegal. Maybe also unethical by most definitions.
  
  The lawsuit was deemed null after it was leaked that the judge was teaming up with the prosecutor to "find" evidences. Since the judge was no longer impartial everything had to be anulled from the beginning.
  Most accusations are no longer considered since it can't be prosecuted anymore due to the statute of limitations.
  This was entirely the judge's and prosecutor's own doing. Maybe he could be convicted in a fair trial, but the trial wasn't fair. >
  
  The judge was absolutely corrupt and his conviction was politically motivated and there isn't strong evidence from what I understand.
  HOWEVER I thought his conviction wasn't overturned because of this (even though it should have been) but instead it was due to the court that sentenced him not having jurisdiction or something along those lines. So he did get out on a technicality
  Edit: Yeah someone else mentioned it but his conviction wasn't overturned but instead annulled meaning that he could potentially be retried for the same charge..... But no one is willing to do that because there's likely not enough evidence to convict him if they actually had a fair trial. >
  
  There are many accounts of rapes and murders too >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 60%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  Rio de Janeiro - The Brazilian military launched an operation Wednesday to crack down on illegal gold miners accused of invading the massive Yanomami Indigenous reservation and spreading disease, violating human rights and destroying the environment.
  The air force said it was deploying fighter jets and surveillance planes to wrest back control of the airspace over the remote Amazon rainforest territory, where Indigenous leaders say some 20,000 miners have set up illegal operations, raping and killing inhabitants, poisoning their water with mercury and ravaging the forest they depend on for food.
  Illegal gold mining rose sharply in Brazil under far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro, who pushed to open protected Indigenous reservations to mining and presided over a surge of destruction in the Amazon.
  
  
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  the Yanomami used to be head hunters, its time for them to brush up on their traditions >
  
  I wonder how successful they'll be. Either way, good riddance. >
  
  Well, those operations happens for time to time here, and it's always the same.
  The military kicks out the miners/woodcutters/landgrabbers (Don't know how to say grilheiro in English =p), the government distributes some food boxes and medical assistance. Politicians take pictures with sick and starving people, the media publishes everything... And a couple months back the miners will be back because the military can't stay there for long without constructing some form of base (Which is illegal in natives lands), the natives are sick and starving because they are locked centuries behind the modern world with primitive agriculture and physics. And the whole circus starts again.
  At the end of the day, the core problem is those extremely rigid laws on reserves protection that makes those people unable to integrate modern society, and locked them in a primitive lifestyle with much more food insecurities, medical issues and more vulnerable to modern criminal groups because some dumb demagogic reason of preserving the "ancient cultures".