A man dedicated to protecting isolated tribes in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has died after being shot in the chest with an arrow by “a war party”.
Rieli Franciscato, 56, died on Wednesday in the Seringueiras, a remote municipality in the northern state of Rondonia, according to a statement from the Brazilian government’s indigenous affairs office, FUNAI, where he worked.
Rieli Franciscato had dedicated more than three decades of his life to the Indigenous cause. Picture: SuppliedBut witnesses said he was shot with an arrow while monitoring recent appearances by a tribe known as the “Cautario River isolated group”, according to a photojournalist in the region, Gabriel Uchida.When the party came under fire with arrows, they ran to take shelter behind a vehicle, but Rieli was hit in the chest, witnesses said.He was 56.
A deforested piece of land in the Amazon rainforest in Rondonia, northern Brazil. Picture: Carl De Souza/AFPSuch groups have sometimes lashed out violently when illegal miners or poachers encroach on their land.Isolated tribes’ first contacts with the outside world have often been disastrous in the past, marred by deadly violence, devastating outbreaks of disease and the breakdown of their social structures.
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