Brazil says illegal miners driven from Indigenous territory, but ‘war’ not over

Country's top cop said 90% of miners despoiling Yanomami land had been expelled, though experts say they are only displaced

Brazil's top federal police chief for the Amazon has celebrated the government's success in driving thousands of illegal miners from the country's largest Indigenous territory but warned the war" against environmental criminals is not yet over.

Speaking during a visit to the Amazon city of Belem, Humberto Freire estimated environmental and police special forces had expelled 90% of the 20,000 miners who had been devastating the protected Yanomami territory, since launching their clampdown in February.