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Instead, the Federal Police came looking for him. Within 48 hours, on June 5, 2022, he and Phillips, who was writing a book on how preserve the Amazon, would be ambushed and shot, their bodies burned, dismembered and buried in a shallow river grave.Īs the one-year anniversary of the killings approached, The Associated Press returned to the Javari Valley to describe the backdrop against which they took place and what unfolded next.Ĭaboclo, 46, who cannot read and supports five children, did not find a new market for his banana harvest. He said, ‘I will go to Brasília and come back with a solution for you to sell bananas,’” Caboclo told The Associated Press.īut Bruno would not return. “I told Bruno that by the end of the month, I would harvest 700 clusters of bananas. Da Costa is also the mother of Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, also arrested and accused of the murders of Pereira, an expert on Indigenous communities and Phillips, a British journalist. Maria de Fatima da Costa, mother of Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, who confessed to the killings of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, stands in the doorway of Amarildo's home in the Sao Gabriel community, Amazonas state, Brazil, March 1, 2023. He was on leave from the government, helping to build alternative livelihoods in these remote and desperately poor communities, which receive virtually no support from the government, although they are legally entitled to it. He had fought those practices fiercely, confiscating and destroying fishing gear.īut Pereira now sought a different approach. Pereira had been a lead official with the nation’s Indigenous agency until recently, and these non-Indigenous communities were frequent trespassers onto Indigenous land to hunt and fish. Pereira’s relationship with people like him in these river communities had often been tense. They were greeted by the man everyone knows as Caboclo, Laurimar Lopes Alves. The line of wooden houses here marks a boundary - between the sprawling Javari Valley Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon and the non-Indigenous world. LADARIO, Brazil (AP) - One year ago on a Friday afternoon, Bruno Pereira, an expert on Indigenous peoples, and Dom Phillips, a British journalist, motored along the Itaquai river in far western Brazil, to the settlement of Ladario.

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