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

[Tony Greenstein]

thanks.  A shocking killing and the US which put Bolsonaro in is responsible
Tony Greenstein


On Sat, 18 Jun 2022 at 00:32, Tony Gosling <tony at cultureshop.org.uk> wrote:

> *Organised Crime vs Indigenous Rights: What Drove Dom Phillips And Bruno
> Pereira To Risk Their Lives In The Amazon?*
> https://tlio.org.uk/organised-crime-vs-indigenous-rights-what-drove-dom-phillips-and-bruno-pereira-to-risk-their-lives-in-the-amazon/
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> 17 June 2022
> <https://tlio.org.uk/organised-crime-vs-indigenous-rights-what-drove-dom-phillips-and-bruno-pereira-to-risk-their-lives-in-the-amazon/> Tony
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> Rodrigo Pedroso – 17 June 2022
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> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-drove-dom-phillips-and-bruno-pereira-to-risk-their-lives-in-the-amazon/ar-AAYyrUz
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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 accelerates deforestation
> <https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/americas/brazil-amazon-deforestation-latam-intl/index.html?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_msn>
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> [image: Emacs!]
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> 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.
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> The planned book would be titled How to save the Amazon.
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> 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.
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> *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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> [image: Emacs!]
> Dom
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> 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 weakened
> <https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/19/americas/brazil-indigenous-protest-mining-intl-latam/index.html?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_msn>
> 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 develop,
> colonize, and integrate
> <https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/22/americas/brazil-amazon-fear-meme-bolsonaro-intl/index.html?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_msn>
> the Amazon.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> [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.
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> But neither Pereira nor Phillips were going to give a free pass to
> exploitation of the Amazon.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> He seemed happy, Matses recalled. He wasn’t afraid to do the right thing.
> We saw him as a warrior like us.
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> 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.
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> We are more united than before and will keep on fighting until the last
> indigenous is killed.
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> Julia Koch contributed reporting.
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