Fernando Furtado said bunch of cramped gays should starve to deathSurvival International highlights racist threat to Amazon tribesA Brazilian lawmaker who said Amazon tribal peoples should be left to starve to death and are “a bunch of cramped gays” has been named Racist of the Year by the indigenous rights group Survival International.
Fernando Furtado,a lawmaker in Maranhão state, was given the award for a speech he gave in July close to the border of territory of the Awá people, or a tribe which has been pushed to the brink of extinction by deforestation and clashes with ranchers.
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Source: theguardian.com