Ívina Garcia – Cenarium Magazine
MANAUS – Former Minister of Women, Family and Human Rights, Damares Alves spoke out for the first time about the rape of the 12 year old Yanomami teenager, which occurred last 25th, in the region of Waikás, in Roraima.
The president of the Yanomami and Ye’kwana Indigenous Health District Council (Condisi-YY), Júnior Hekurari Yanomami, reported the crime to the federal bodies that went to the site and informed that “they found no evidence of crimes against women and children in the Yanomami Indigenous Land”.
In an interview with the Universa website, of the UOL portal, Damares spoke about her performance while in the ministry. She says that only in the years she was at the head of the portfolio, the indigenous cause, regarding sexual violence against children, was raised. “When cases like these happen, people really want Damares to speak out. But look: it was me who spoke about the rape of children, including collective rape of children in indigenous areas even in the form of ritual. It was me who raised, in Brazil, back then, in the form of a debate, about the harmful culture in some peoples in Brazil”.
When asked about the case of the Yanomami, which has been reverberating for days, Damares recalled the case of the 11-year-old girl, of the Guarani Kaiowá ethnic group, victim of collective rape and who was thrown off a 20-meter cliff, located in the municipality of Dourados, in Minas Gerais. “The rape of this girl shocked us as it shocked the rape of the little girl there among the Guarani Kaiowá. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case, and we have to stand up as a whole in confronting violence against indigenous girls and women,” she replied to UOL reporter Luiza Souto.
On the case of the 12-year-old Yanomami girl, raped and killed by miners, Damares recalled that illegal mining has been operating in indigenous areas for more than 70 years, and that the case that occurred on the 25th is not an exception. “This case raises the issue of illegal mining, but I want to remind you that the miners have been illegally working on indigenous lands for more than 70 years, and there has been a lot of violence. The case of this girl caused all this repercussion, and this is very good because we are still going to talk about sexual violence against indigenous children. We can not be guided by a single case. I am sorry, but it happens every day”, she concludes.
Damares’ silence
Damares was being criticized on social networks for her delay in making a statement about the case of the Yanomami teenager. The former minister, however, was active on the social networks. One day after the Yanomami case came to light, Damares ‘tweeted’ celebrating the gain of new followers, following Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter:
The massive increase in followers on the profiles of supporters of President Bolsonaro is a result of Twitter’s changing policies, but research, surveyed by Bot Sentinel at the request of Congress in Focus, points out that 67.4% of the total number of new followers of Bolsonaro supporters are from accounts considered inauthentic, or robots.
Kidnapping Controversy
The former minister, who is now vying for a seat in the Senate, has already been involved in other controversies with indigenous people. In 2019, the magazine “Época” revealed the story of Lulu Kamayurá, the Indian woman raised as a daughter by Damares Alves since she was 6 years old, when she was taken from the village. According to the report, the indigenous people said that Damares took Lulu with the pretext of having dental treatment, but the child never returned to the community. The former minister even sought the report to clarify the adoption of Lulu, but according to the magazine, she partially answered the 14 questions sent, and ignored the question about irregular adoption.
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