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The world is talking, are you listening?

Shame on us this world is run by the few on behalf of the few time to stand with our brothers and sisters and kick those few out

Please, sign the petition “Let us save the Indigenous Guarani-Kaiowá – URGENT!”: http://www.avaaz.org/po/petiti…
Thank you so much!

The
Guarani-Kaiowa made public a letter-testament:

“We live on
the river bank Hovy for over a year and are without any assistance, isolated,
surrounded by gunmen and resisted until today. Eat food once a day. We spend
all this to recover our territory Pyleito old Kue / Mbarakay. In fact, we know
very well that at the heart of our territory old are buried several of our
grandfathers, grandmothers, great-grandparents and great-grandparents, there
are the cemeteries of all our ancestors.

Aware of
this historical fact, we are about and we want to be dead and buried with our
ancestors right here where we are today, so we ask the Government and the
Federal Court not to order the eviction / expulsion, but ask to enact our death
collective and to bury us all here.

Please,
once and for all, to enact our decimation and total extinction, besides sending
several tractors to dig a big hole to play and bury our bodies. This is our
request to federal judges. Now await the decision of the Federal Court. Declare
our collective death of Guarani and Kaiowá Pyelito Kue / Mbarakay and bury us
here. Since we decided not to leave here fully alive nor dead.

We know
that we have more chance to survive with dignity here in our territory old
already suffered a lot and we are all massacred and dying apace. We know that
we will be driven away from the riverbank for justice, but let’s not get out of
the river. As an indigenous people and indigenous history, we decided
collectively merely being killed here. We have no choice this is our last
dispatch before the unanimous decision of the Federal Court of Navirai-MS.”