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Bolsonaro administration to face genocide investigation
The Brazilian Supreme Court opened an investigation on Monday into the possible genocide of indigenous populations in Brazil. Justice Luís Roberto Barroso will also look into other potential crimes committed by the Jair Bolsonaro administration (2019-2022), such as disobedience to judicial decisions, violation of judicial secrecy, and environmental infractions.
Context. The move comes as Brazil grapples with the Yanomami health emergency. Images from the Yanomami indigenous territory (an area almost the size of Kentucky, near the Venezuelan border) show emaciated children, adults, and elderly people with limbs as thin as tree branches, faces drawn and haggard, and bellies distended.
- The community is also battling a malaria outbreak. During the Covid crisis, the Bolsonaro government pushed antimalarial medicine chloroquine as a treatment for the coronavirus, despite a lack of scientific evidence...