Last night, locally it was evening, several dozen demonstrators entered the location of the climate summit in Belém, Brazil, with batons. They clashed with security guards at the entrance. They then barricaded the entrance with tables.
The group was part of a larger group of several hundred demonstrators from indigenous communities who were demonstrating, Reuters writes. Some waved flags with slogans calling for land rights or carried signs that read: “Our land is not for sale.”
“We cannot eat money,” Nato, an indigenous leader of the Tupinamba community, told Reuters. “We want our country to be free from agriculture, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal logging.”
The demonstrators who wanted to enter the conference building were pushed back by security guards. A Reuters witness saw a security guard being led away in a wheelchair while holding his stomach. Another security guard with a fresh cut above his eye said he had been hit on the head by a heavy stick thrown from the crowd. Security confiscated several long, heavy sticks.
The demonstrators, who had walked to the COP location in numbers of several hundred, left the location shortly after the clashes.
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