Dispute over COVID-19 deaths pits indigenous Brazilians against gov't
Reuters
5/6/2021
* Native affairs agency Funai slammed for handling of the pandemic
* Indigenous leader subpoenaed by police for spreading 'fake news'
* Judge denounces Funai for trying to silence indigenous activists
By Fabio Teixeira
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The government agency created to protect Brazil's indigenous people is out to destroy them, a prominent native leader said on Thursday after Funai asked the police to investigate her for fake news.
Police subpoenaed Sonia Guajajara, head of Brazil's largest indigenous coalition APIB, at the request of the native affairs agency Funai, after she accused the government of genocide for not protecting indigenous people from the coronavirus pandemic.