Breaking In, Amazon Society Had Clashes At Brazil's COP30 Climate Summit

Illustration of ethnic communities in Amazon, Brazil. (Lucia Barreiros Silva-Unsplash)

JAKARTA - The COP30 climate summit in Brazil was marked by clashes between security officers and protesters from local community groups who tried to force them into the meeting location.

While shouting angry, the demonstrators tried to enter the location where thousands of delegates from various countries attended this year's UN climate summit in the city of Amazon, Belem, Brazil.

Several demonstrators raised flags bearing slogans calling for land rights or carrying banners that read, "Our land is not for sale."

"We can't eat money," said Nato, a leader of a local community group from the Tubinamba community during a demonstration on Tuesday local time.

"We want our land to be free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners, and illegal logging," he continued.

Security officers encouraged the demonstrators, then used a table to close the entrance to the meeting location.

An eyewitness said that as a result of clashes a security officer held his stomach and was evacuated in a wheelchair.

Another guard said he was injured in the head after being hit by a heavy drum stick thrown from the crowd. Security forces then confiscated several long and heavy sticks.

Protesters disbanded shortly after the clashes took place. They were previously in groups with hundreds of long marches to the location of the COP30 climate summit in the city of Amazon, Belem, Brazil.