Case For Indian Land Rights

A fresh controversy has erupted after the Brazilian Supreme Court begun hearing a landmark case to define Indians' rights to their land. The court will decide whether native Indians have to share a reserve of 17,000 square kilometres with non-indigenous rice farmers. In 2005, Brazil demarcated the region as indigenous territory since then Amazon Indians have been pitted against a handful of large scale rice farmers who have violently fought efforts to remove them. Those who favor the breaking up of the reserve should know that the said reservation resulted from a decades-long effort to right wrongs that began five centuries ago during colonization by the Portuguese. It is wrong to say that the entire reservation in Indian hands is a threat to national security and strangles economic growth in the sparsely populated state. This is ridiculous, how can a population of 19, ooo become a threat to the national security of a country, on the contrary the court by ruling against the reservation should set a precedent that would eventually destroy policies that grant Indians land and autonomy to maintain their traditional cultures.
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