Brazil's federal police said on Friday they had launched a fresh operation to fight wildcat mining in the Yanomami indigenous territory amid a humanitarian crisis blamed on illegal gold miners in the region.
by Brazil's environmental and indigenous agencies to expel thousands of wildcat miners from the country's largest indigenous reservation.
Police said they would try and destroy machinery used by illegal miners as part of the first phase of the operation, joining efforts with environmental agency Ibama, indigenous agency Funai, the National Force and the Defense Ministry. "The main focus of the operation is fully removing non-indigenous people from the Yanomami territory," the head of the federal police environment department, Humberto Freire, said in a statement.
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