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A decade after Brazil’s deadly dam collapse, Indigenous peoples demand justice on the eve of COP30
- A week before COP30, Indigenous leader Shirley Djukurnã Krenak stated, 'It was the saddest day for my people,' reflecting on the Doce River's suffering.
- Krenak described the ongoing pollution, saying, 'The Doce River is still sick. The fish are contaminated, the people are ill, and children still ask when the river will be healed.'
- Krenak criticized the lack of recovery, noting, 'It’s hard to talk about climate leadership when the state where this crime happened hasn’t even recovered.'
- Krenak emphasized the urgency, stating, 'If all the previous COPs had worked, we wouldn’t still be talking about crimes like this.
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Ten years ago, the collapse of a dam killed 19 people and caused significant environmental damage.
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A decade after Brazil’s deadly dam collapse, Indigenous peoples demand justice on the eve of COP30
Ten years after Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, the Indigenous Krenak people are still mourning what they call “the death of the river.”
·United States
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A week before what the Krenak indigenous people now call "the death of the river," they say they could feel it approaching. Birds stopped singing, the air became heavy and an unusual silence settled over their village in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil where the forested hills give way to the winding Doce River.
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