[Diggers350] Organised Crime vs Indigenous Rights: What Drove Journos To Risk Their Lives In The Amazon?

Tony Gosling tony at cultureshop.org.uk
Sat Jun 18 00:30:32 BST 2022 


Organised Crime vs Indigenous Rights: What Drove 
Dom Phillips And Bruno Pereira To Risk Their Lives In The Amazon?

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Rodrigo Pedroso – 17 June 2022

<https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-drove-dom-phillips-and-bruno-pereira-to-risk-their-lives-in-the-amazon/ar-AAYyrUz>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-drove-dom-phillips-and-bruno-pereira-to-risk-their-lives-in-the-amazon/ar-AAYyrUz

Dom Phillips and Bruno Araujo Pereira, veterans 
of the Amazon, would have known the risks they 
faced when they set off for Atalaia do Norte in 
the Brazilian rainforests remote Javari Valley a 
trip that ended in tragedy, after Brazilian 
authorities said Friday they had identified the remains of Phillips.

On Wednesday, a suspect had confessed to killing 
the men, with police following their directions 
to human remains in the jungle. Investigations 
are continuing on the remains of the other body.

The pair, who were first reported missing on June 
5, had received death threats prior to their 
departure, according to the Coordination of the 
Indigenous Organization, known as UNIVAJA. Each 
was well versed in the areas often-violent 
incursions by illegal miners, hunters, loggers 
and drug-traffickers but they were equally 
dedicated to exposing how such activity plagues 
Brazil’s protected wild areas, endangers its 
indigenous peoples, and 
<https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/americas/brazil-amazon-deforestation-latam-intl/index.html?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_msn>accelerates 
deforestation.

Pereira, a 41-year-old father of three, spent 
much of his life in service of the country’s 
indigenous peoples since joining the Brazilian 
governments indigenous agency (FUNAI) in 2010. He 
told CNN that the agency’s Isolated and Newly 
Contacted Indigenous Coordination Office had made 
a major expedition to contact isolated indigenous 
people under his leadership in 2018, and that he 
had participated in multiple operations to expel 
illegal miners from protected lands.

Pereiras passion was evident in an interview with 
CNN last year. I cant stay away for too long from 
the parentes, he said, referring to the regions 
indigenous people with the affectionate term relatives.

Emacs!



Phillips, 57, a widely respected British 
journalist who had lived in Sao Paulo and Rio de 
Janeiro, brought environmental issues and the 
Amazon to the pages of the Financial Times, The 
Washington Post, The New York Times and, 
principally, The Guardian. Pereira was on leave 
from FUNAI amid a broader shake-up of the agency 
when he joined Phillips to assist in research for a new book.

The planned book would be titled How to save the Amazon.

In a video filmed in May in an Ashaninka village 
in northwestern Acre state, and released by the 
Ashaninka association, Phillips can be heard 
explaining his endeavour: I came here () to learn 
with you, about your culture, how you see the 
forest, how you live here and how you deal with 
threats from invaders and gold diggers and everything else.


A dangerous undertaking

Home to thousands of indigenous people and more 
than a dozen uncontacted groups, Brazil’s vast 
Javari Valley is a patchwork of rivers and dense 
forest that makes access very difficult. Criminal 
activity there often passes under the radar, or 
is confronted only by indigenous patrols sometimes ending in bloody conflict.

In September 2019, indigenous affairs worker 
Maxciel Pereira dos Santos was murdered in the 
same area, according to Brazil’s Public 
Prosecutors Office. In a statement, a FUNAI union 
group cited evidence that dos Santos murder was 
retaliation for his efforts to combat illegal 
commercial extraction in the Javari Valley, Reuters reported at the time.

Across Brazil, standing up to illegal activity in 
the Amazon can be deadly, as CNN has previously 
reported. Between 2009 and 2019, more than 300 
people were killed in Brazil amid land and 
resource conflicts in the Amazon, according to 
Human Rights Watch (HRW), citing figures from the 
Catholic non-profit Pastoral Land Commission.

Emacs!

Dom

Critics have accused President Jair Bolsonaros 
administration of emboldening the criminal 
networks involved in illegal resource extraction. 
Since coming to power in 2019, Bolsonaro has 
<https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/19/americas/brazil-indigenous-protest-mining-intl-latam/index.html?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_msn>weakened 
federal environmental agencies, demonized 
organizations working to preserve the rainforest, 
and rallied for economic growth on indigenous 
lands arguing that it is for indigenous groups 
own welfare with calls to 
<https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/22/americas/brazil-amazon-fear-meme-bolsonaro-intl/index.html?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_msn>develop, 
colonize, and integrate the Amazon.

Pereira last year lamented the diminished state 
of Brazil’s environmental and indigenous 
protection agencies under Bolsonaro’s presidency. 
But he also saw a bright side, telling CNN that 
he thought the shift would push the Javari 
Valleys indigenous peoples to overcome historical 
divisions and form alliances to protect their shared interests.

However, in another interview with CNN, later in 
the year, he was more circumspect about the 
dangers. Having just returned from a trip in the 
rainforest, his feet and legs covered with 
mosquito bites, Pereira described a backlash from 
criminal groups to indigenous territorial patrols.

[The patrols] took them by surprise, I think. 
They thought that since the government withdraw 
from operations, they would get a free pass on the region, Pereira said.

But neither Pereira nor Phillips were going to 
give a free pass to exploitation of the Amazon.

Dom knew the risks of going to the Javari Valley, 
but he thought that the story was important 
enough to take those risks, Jonathan Watts, 
global environmental editor for the Guardian told CNN.

We knew it was a dangerous place, but Dom 
believes it is possible to safeguard the nature 
and the livelihood of the indigenous people, said 
his sister, Sian Phillips, in a video last week 
urging the Bolsonaro government to intensify its search for the pair.

On Wednesday, Jaime Matses, another local 
indigenous leader in the Javari Valley, told CNN 
he had recently met with Pereira to discuss a new 
potential project monitoring illegal activity in his community’s territory.

He seemed happy, Matses recalled. He wasn’t 
afraid to do the right thing. We saw him as a warrior like us.

And if their disappearance was intended to instil 
fear among those who would follow in their 
footsteps, it has backfired, Kora Kamanari, 
another local leader, told CNN on Wednesday.

We are more united than before and will keep on 
fighting until the last indigenous is killed.

Julia Koch contributed reporting.




















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