The tragic news of the “Guapoy Massacre”, committed on 24 June 2022 and documented by testimonies and reports of the National Campaign in Defence of the Cerrado Territory, has reached the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal in the middle of the last phase of the session on the human, environmental and territorial rights of the Cerrado peoples, thus confirming (beyond and above the most pessimistic forecasts) the accusation on the ongoing process of denial of the existence of the members of the communities to which the territories belong.
In addition to expressing its profound condemnation of those materially and even more so of those institutionally responsible for the massacre, the PPT will examine this event for its final judgment in order to affirm the recognition of the inviolable rights of the peoples of Mato Grosso do Sul and of the entire Cerrado.
Rome, 1 July 2022
Gianni Tognoni, Secretary General