Between January 19 and 21, 2022, the Territorial Surveillance and Monitoring Team of the Indigenous Council of Roraima (CIR), was visiting the regions that are part of the Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Land (TIRSS): Surumú, Serras, Baixo Cotingo and Raposa. There were three days of trips to closely check the activities that each surveillance center is carrying out.
The team formed by João Oliveira Mota, Anselmo Dionísio Filho and Kleber da Silva, visited the Donos da Terra Regional Surveillance and Monitoring Center, located in the Barro indigenous community, Surumú region, municipality of Pacaraima with the objective of verifying the materials delivered to the surveillance post.
Soon after, the team also visited the Regional Surveillance Center in the Tabatinga community, Serras region, municipality of Uiramutã. At the site there was a dialogue with the coordinators Osmar and Anastácio. In the region there are five Surveillance Centers operating at strategic points. Where until now the post of the Tabatinga community, the Lilac community and Urucuri, which are the ones that are working and doing the inspection.
A visit was also made to the Tuxaua Rari Lima Pinto surveillance center, in the Baixo Cotingo region, in the municipality of Normandia, where all the equipment and materials were checked. Finally, on January 21, the team visited the Lago Caracaranã Regional Center, in the Raposa region.
According to the administrative assistant of the Territorial Surveillance and Monitoring team, João Mota, it was very important to make this visit to the regions. Because this way they closely monitor all the activities of the indigenous territorial vigilantes.
"The importance of this visit to the surveillance and territorial monitoring centers in the regions of Raposa Serra do Sol, is to make an on-site survey of the material goods that were delivered to each regional surveillance center. We went to check up close how the state of these materials that were delivered is. This was important for us to leave the field, also to see up close what are the difficulties they are facing", highlighted João.