We share an unofficial translation of an article by A Nova Democracia.

In a declared act of war, a mother and two children were burned alive in another macabre attack by goons during the retaken of lands of tekoha Avae’te in Dourados (Mato Grosso do Sul – MS) in the early hours of today March 31. According to information from the General Assembly of the Kaiowá and Guarani people (Aty Guasu), the big landlord behind the murder is Allan Christian Kruger.

According to the reports, this criminal attack is part of a campaign by the Kruger big landlord family, with the support of local politicians, against the Guarani-Kaiowá people in struggle. In recent weeks, a report by AND closely covered an attack carried out by a legion of heavily armed goons against the Guarani-Kaiowá people.

The report showed how big landlords and goons arrived in trucks, expelled the Guarani-Kaiowá from part of their lands, dug trenches around the reduced territory and set up a tent nearby, as an open-air prison with an advanced lookout point for the goons and big landlords.

The local correspondent for AND also heard dennounces from the Guarani-Kaiowá about how the Military Police (MP) works alongside the goons and in service of the big landlords: on a day when 20 indigenous people attempted to jump the trench, the goons immediately called the MP, who arrived in the region quickly and attacked the Guarani-Kaiowá warriors with rubber bullets, live ammunition and pepper spray.

The group that attacked the Guarani-Kaiowá in Avae’te acted in a planned and organized manner, following methods used by paramilitary groups from the latifundium that have been organizing throughout Brazil to combat struggling indigenous people and peasants.

In the case of MS, the invasion of a village to set fire to the homes of residents with people inside is a medieval way of declaring war. These attacks occur amid the local scenario in MS, where the Guarani-Kaiowá have made advances in their retaking of lands, and in the national context of increasing agrarian conflicts, marked by the violence unleashed by the big landlords, primarily from the far-right, against the poor in the countryside, and the rise of peasant and indigenous self-defense against large big landlords.

The editorial team of AND will continue monitoring the case.

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