Rescue mission coordinator condemns failure to arrest masterminds behind murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
The failure by Brazilian authorities to arrest the criminal masterminds behind the murders of theposes a grave threat to communities in the remote Amazon region where the pair were killed in early June, according to a prominent rights lawyer.
Pereira, 41, and Phillips, 57, were ambushed and shot dead on 5 June while traveling by boat on the River Itaquaí in the Javari Valley – an increasingly dangerous partthat is home to one of the largest concentrations of uncontacted Indigenous communities in the world. “The problems in our region are not new but the violence has escalated to unprecedented levels because under Bolsonaro, illegal operations have gone unpunished,” Marubo said.After Phillips and Pereira went missing on 5 June, Marubo helped organise a search team of local Indigenous groups who knew the men and the remote terrain, while the Bolsonaro government dithered and made excuses.
Indigenous leaders and security experts say the murders were the latest in a long line of grisly crimes directly linked to organized crime and illicit extractive projects in the area. But Bolsonaro and local investigators have said the killings occurred due to a personal dispute involving Pereira.whether the detainees were hired hitmen, but officials have yet to reveal a motive or identify other suspects.
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