A commission of indigenous leaders from Roraima participated, on the morning of Friday (7), in the Ordinary Meeting of the National Council of Human Rights (CNDH), held at the headquarters of the Office of the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU), in Brasilia.
At the invitation of the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), the leaders attended the meeting of the Land and Water Commission, which had as its agenda the Data Systematization Report on Lethal Violence against Indigenous Peoples in Brazil (2020-2026). The document will be forwarded to the competent authorities and to international bodies for the protection of human rights.
Prepared by the CNDH, the report aims to request information and measures from the competent Brazilian authorities, in addition to subsidizing complaints before international bodies for the protection of human rights. Based on official data available for the period from 2020 to 2024, the document points to at least 957 murders of indigenous people in Brazil in five years, an average of more than 190 deaths per year — the equivalent of more than one death every two days.
The Tuxaua-General of the Indigenous Council of Roraima (CIR), Amarildo Macuxi, participated in the debate and presented a summary of the crimes and violations committed against indigenous peoples in Roraima.
"We thank you for receiving us at this meeting. Our rights are being attacked. I bring here that 21 leaders were murdered for the demarcation of the Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Land. I am the son of a murdered leader and the case remains unpunished. We have cases of communities and relatives burned, such as in the Indigenous Training Center. We have, more recently, the case of the young leader Gabriel Ferreira, from the Amajari region, who was murdered. We ask for measures and question: how long will indigenous peoples be murdered within their own territories?", said Amarildo.
The CIR's lawyer, Júnior Nicácio, also highlighted the criminalization of indigenous leaders in Roraima, citing the Tabatinga case, among other situations, and requested measures, especially in relation to the death of Gabriel Ferreira.
"The cases of human rights violations that have happened in Roraima are already included in this report. The most recent is the case of leader Gabriel Ferreira, found dead on February 10. The police presented the technical report, but the leaders contested the result and we asked the CNDH to intervene in the case. The data from Roraima are quite alarming. From 2020 to 2025, about 25 indigenous people, including young people, women and men, are in the Human Rights Defenders Protection Program. We ask that the crimes cited do not go unpunished", reported Nicácio.
At the end of the meeting, the National Human Rights Council offered to receive and forward the demands presented by the indigenous leaders of Roraima, including the request for follow-up and measures on the case of Gabriel Ferreira. The CNDH committed to analyze the situation and adopt the appropriate measures to contribute to the investigation of the case and to the defense of the rights of indigenous peoples.