ESTA RODOVIA FEDERAL FECHA TODA NOITE — e o motivo está enterrado em 2.650 mortos | BR-174
“Sombras da Estrada”
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There is a federal highway in Brazil that closes every night.
From 6 PM to 6 AM. Every day. For decades.
No stopping. No photography. No one enters after sunset.
The stretch is 123 kilometers long and located within the Waimiri-Atroari Indigenous Territory, in Amazonas and Roraima.
And to understand why it closes, it's necessary to understand what Brazil did to open it.
In the first episode of the new series on the channel Shadows on the Road — Roads of the Dictatorship:
🔴 Who are the Kinja — the Waimiri-Atroari people and the 3,000 who existed before the road
🔴 1968: the dictatorship's decision to open the BR-174 highway through indigenous territory — and the general who ordered a demonstration of "the effects of a burst of machine gun fire"
🔴 What survivors recounted for the first time in 2018 — air raids, destroyed villages, beheadings
🔴 The Yawara village: 31 survivors from 4 destroyed villages — all orphans, none over 40 years old
🔴 The National Truth Commission: 2,650 Waimiri-Atroari deaths during the highway's construction
🔴 Why the road closes at night — the official explanation and the historical explanation
🔴 What drivers feel when crossing that stretch during the day
🔴 What Brazil Still not asked — and the question the village children wrote in their notebooks in 1985:
"Why did Kamña kill Kiña?"
Why did civilized people kill our people?
Based on the National Truth Commission (2014), MPF action no. 1001605-06.2017.4.01.3200, 1st Report of the Amazonas State Truth Committee, and documentation from Amazônia Real and National Geographic Brazil.
⚠️ Shadows on the Road — real stories and legends of Brazilian roads. All content is based on research and documentation.
🔔 Subscribe — next episode: The Trans-Amazonian Highway — the road of the century that the forest is swallowing back.
📩 Do you have a story about the BR-174 or about the Waimiri-Atroari? Send it to us:
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ESTA RODOVIA FEDERAL FECHA TODA NOITE — e o motivo está enterrado em 2.650 mortos | BR-174
“Sombras da Estrada”
3,629 views
There is a federal highway in Brazil that closes every night.
From 6 PM to 6 AM. Every day. For decades.
No stopping. No photography. No one enters after sunset.
The stretch is 123 kilometers long and located within the Waimiri-Atroari Indigenous Territory, in Amazonas and Roraima.
And to understand why it closes, it's necessary to understand what Brazil did to open it.
In the first episode of the new series on the channel Shadows on the Road — Roads of the Dictatorship:
🔴 Who are the Kinja — the Waimiri-Atroari people and the 3,000 who existed before the road
🔴 1968: the dictatorship's decision to open the BR-174 highway through indigenous territory — and the general who ordered a demonstration of "the effects of a burst of machine gun fire"
🔴 What survivors recounted for the first time in 2018 — air raids, destroyed villages, beheadings
🔴 The Yawara village: 31 survivors from 4 destroyed villages — all orphans, none over 40 years old
🔴 The National Truth Commission: 2,650 Waimiri-Atroari deaths during the highway's construction
🔴 Why the road closes at night — the official explanation and the historical explanation
🔴 What drivers feel when crossing that stretch during the day
🔴 What Brazil Still not asked — and the question the village children wrote in their notebooks in 1985:
"Why did Kamña kill Kiña?"
Why did civilized people kill our people?
Based on the National Truth Commission (2014), MPF action no. 1001605-06.2017.4.01.3200, 1st Report of the Amazonas State Truth Committee, and documentation from Amazônia Real and National Geographic Brazil.
⚠️ Shadows on the Road — real stories and legends of Brazilian roads. All content is based on research and documentation.
🔔 Subscribe — next episode: The Trans-Amazonian Highway — the road of the century that the forest is swallowing back.
📩 Do you have a story about the BR-174 or about the Waimiri-Atroari? Send it to us: