BELEM, Brazil: Dozens of Indigenous protesters compelled their approach into the COP30 local weather summit venue on Tuesday (Nov 11) and clashed with safety guards on the entrance to demand local weather motion and forest safety.
Shouting angrily, protesters demanded entry to the United Nations compound the place hundreds of delegates from nations all over the world are attending this yr’s UN local weather summit within the Amazon metropolis of Belem, Brazil.
Some waved flags with slogans calling for land rights or carried indicators saying: “Our land just isn’t on the market.”
“We are able to’t eat cash,” mentioned Gilmar, an Indigenous chief from the Tupinamba group close to the decrease reaches of the Tapajos River in Brazil, who makes use of just one identify.
“We wish our lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, unlawful miners and unlawful loggers.”
Safety guards pushed the protesters again and used tables to barricade the doorway. A Reuters witness noticed one safety guard being rushed away in a wheelchair whereas clutching his abdomen.
One other guard with a recent minimize above his eye instructed Reuters he had been hit within the head by a heavy drumstick thrown from the gang. Safety confiscated a number of lengthy, heavy sticks.
