Brazil: Fear for safety

Index Number: AMR 19/037/2006
Date Published: 8 December 2006
Categories: Americas

Armed men, reportedly security guards and off-duty military police officers, have been threatening to kill members of the Tremembé indigenous community of São José and Buriti in the north-eastern Brazilian state of Ceará. The Tremembé are attempting to stop the construction of a vast tourist resort on what they consider to be their ancestral lands. The company is continuing work on the site in defiance of a court order.