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.[1][2] The report had been commissioned by Minister of the Interior Albuquerque Lima, but had minimal repercussions for those involved.[3] 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, 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.[4][5] International human rights organization Survival International was founded in 1969, after Norman Lewis published excerpts of the reports in the Sunday Times.[6]
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), as part of the archival investigations of the Brazilian National Truth Commission.[2] It consists of more than 7,000 pages, divided into 30 chapters (one of the chapters is lost), and is not publicly available.[1][7][8]
- ^ a b Watts, Jonathan; Rocha, Jan (29 May 2013). "Brazil's 'Lost Report' into Genocide Surfaces after 40 Years". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
- ^ a b Sant’Anna, André Luis de Oliveira de; Castro, Alexandre de Carvalho; Jacó-Vilela, Ana Maria; Sant’Anna, André Luis de Oliveira de; Castro, Alexandre de Carvalho; Jacó-Vilela, Ana Maria (2018). "DITADURA MILITAR E PRÁTICAS DISCIPLINARES NO CONTROLE DE ÍNDIOS: PERSPECTIVAS PSICOSSOCIAIS NO RELATÓRIO FIGUEIREDO" (PDF). Psicologia & Sociedade (in Portuguese and English). 30. doi:10.1590/1807-0310/2018v30188045. ISSN 0102-7182.
- ^ Cando, Felipe (20 April 2013). "Brazil: Entire Tribes Massacred". Latin America Bureau. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
- ^ "BRASILIEN / INDIANER: Arsen und Zuckerstückchen". Der Spiegel. 25 March 1968. Retrieved 12 December 2018 – via Spiegel Online.
- ^ International, Survival. "'Lost' report exposes Brazilian Indian genocide". www.survivalinternational.org. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
- ^ "Norman Lewis article which led to the founding of Survival International". Scribd. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
- ^ Branford, Sue (20 April 2013). "BRAZIL: ENTIRE TRIBES MASSACRED - Latin America Bureau". Retrieved 12 December 2018.
- ^ "Arsen und Zuckerstückchen". Der Spiegel (in German). 1968-03-24. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2023-12-09.