The Figueiredo Report is an investigative report by public prosecutor
Jader de Figueiredo Correia, published in 1967, detailing the crimes committed by the
Indigenous Protection Service (Serviço de Proteção ao Índio) against the native peoples of Brazil.
The report had been commissioned by Minister of the Interior Albuquerque Lima, but had minimal repercussions for those involved. The report uncovered numerous incidents of genocide, torture, abduction, enslavement, biological and chemical warfare, sexual abuse, and land theft committed upon the
indigenous peoples in Brazil
Indigenous peoples in Brazil or Native Brazilians () are the peoples who lived in Brazil before European contact around 1500 and their descendants. Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples once comprised an estimated 2,000 distric ...
, thereby documenting in part the
genocide of indigenous peoples in Brazil.
The Figueiredo commission investigated many of the massacres committed against the Indians, such as the
Massacre at 11th Parallel (against the
Cinta Larga people) and the mass poisoning with sugar laced with arsenic of the Tapayuna people. International human rights organization
Survival International
Survival International is a human rights organisation formed in 1969, a London based charity that campaigns for the collective rights of Indigenous, tribal and uncontacted peoples.
The organisation's campaigns generally focus on tribal people ...
was founded in 1969, after
Norman Lewis published excerpts of the reports in the
Sunday Times
''The Sunday Times'' is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of N ...
.
The then Brazilian minister of the Interior, Albuquerque Lima sacked more than 50 government officials after the report was published. A new Indian protection agency,
Fundação Nacional do Índio was formed to replace the Serviço de Proteção ao Índio.
The report, which was considered to have been lost in a fire in 1967, was rediscovered in December 2012 in the
Museum of the Indian (
Museu do Índio
O Museu do Índio (English: The Museum of the Indigenous Populations) is a cultural and scientific agency of the Fundação Nacional dos Povos Indígenas (English: National Foundation of Indigenous Populations) or FUNAI. It was created by Darcy Ri ...
), as part of the archival investigations of the Brazilian
National Truth Commission.
It consists of more than 7,000 pages, divided into 30 chapters (one of the chapters is lost), and was not publicly available until more than four decades after its publication.
See also
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Cinta Larga people
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Indigenous peoples of Brazil
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Genocide of indigenous peoples in Brazil
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Norman Lewis
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Survival International
Survival International is a human rights organisation formed in 1969, a London based charity that campaigns for the collective rights of Indigenous, tribal and uncontacted peoples.
The organisation's campaigns generally focus on tribal people ...
References
External links
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Figueiredo Reportfrom Brazil’s Ministry of Interior. Volume 2 of 30 is missing for unknown or undisclosed reasons.
Government reports
Indigenous peoples in Brazil
Massacres in Brazil
1967 documents
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