Brazilian tribes seek justice all the way in Britain for dead river
Groups are suing BHP and Vale over the destruction of their community’s lifeblood, the Rio Doce
27 July 2020 - 15:49
Rio de Janeiro — For the Krenak indigenous people who live along the Rio Doce in southeastern Brazil, the waterway was their community’s lifeblood, a source of food and spiritual presence, where children were baptised and learnt to swim.
But in 2015 a dam co-owned by BHP and Vale collapsed, unleashing 44-million cubic metres of mining waste into the river and the Atlantic Ocean, 650km away, in Brazil’s worst environmental disaster...
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