‘Marco Temporal’ was approved with a score of 283 to 155
The Chamber of Deputies has given its first endorsement to the bill that modifies the parameters of delimitation of indigenous lands, the so-called “tempo”.
The rule limits the delimitation to areas that were already occupied by indigenous peoples before the entry into force of the 1988 Constitution, which risks preventing indigenous people from obtaining land titles, a measure supported by the rural group in Congress, where the Lula government it has no majority.
For the Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, it is a “legislative genocide”, while the Minister of the Environment, Marina Silva, has defined the project as an “unacceptable injustice”.
The vote mobilized indigenous people across the country, with tensions in Sao Paulo state where military police used tear gas and water cannons against members of a Guarani community who blocked the Bandeirantes highway.
The text received 283 votes in favor and 155 against and is now going to the Senate, but the Federal Court (Stf) must also express its opinion on the timing.
According to the approved project, it must be confirmed that the occupied lands were permanently inhabited, used for productive activities and necessary for the conservation of environmental resources and physical and cultural reproduction at the date of promulgation of the Constitution.
If the indigenous community was not in a certain territory before that date, regardless of the reason, the area will not be recognised.
And the law also authorizes the planting of transgenics; prohibits the expansion of already delimited areas; determines that the delimitation processes not yet concluded are subject to the new rules; and cancel demarcations in violation of the law.
“We will resist, we will take sides, and if they try to reappropriate any indigenous land, it is necessary to understand that they will have to take our lives. The territory is who we are,” indigenous leader Thiago Karai Djekupe told Agência Brasil.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Human Rights Office in South America has called on the Brazilian authorities to adopt “urgent measures in favor of these populations”. According to the agency, initiatives such as the approval of the timetable “put at risk the protection of the indigenous populations of the country”.
The international organization Human Rights Watch has also expressed great concern about the vote, asking the Brazilian Congress to reject a bill “which adopts an arbitrary term for the recognition of indigenous lands”.
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Source: Terra
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