According to the British media “Guardian” report, Brazil’s federal police said on Saturday (June 18) that the deaths of British journalist Dom Phillips (Dom Phillips) and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira (Bruno Pereira) A third suspect has been arrested. According to autopsy results, the cause of death for both was gunshot.
Dom Phillips was shot in the chest and Bruno Pereira was shot in the head and abdomen, police said in a statement.
Police said a third suspect, Jefferson da Silva Lima, also known as Pelado da Dinha, was found in northern Atala, in the Amazon region. Atalaia do Norte police station surrendered. Two other suspects, the Oliveira brothers, Amarildo de Oliveira and Oseney de Oliveira, have been jailed on suspicion of murder.
Phillips and Pereira were last seen on June 5, when they were on a boat on the Itaquai river, near the entrance to the Havari Valley indigenous territory on the border with Peru and Colombia. .
On Wednesday (June 15), fisherman Amarildo de Oliveira admitted to killing two people and took police to the place where he had intended to bury the bodies. Federal police confirmed Friday that human remains found in a remote area of the Amazon belonged to Phillips, 57, and the next day, those found near the city of northern Atalaya were confirmed to belong to 41-year-old indigenous expert Pereira.
“We found the remains 3km deep in the woods,” investigators said, adding that the police took about an hour and 40 minutes by boat and another 25 minutes in the woods to reach the burial site.
Phillips, 57, has lived in Brazil for more than a decade, while Pereira, 41, was on leave at the Brazilian government’s indigenous affairs agency, an expert on indigenous tribes in the Amazon. At the time of the incident, the two were together on a final trip for Phillips’ book, How to Save the Amazon, to tell the stories of Aboriginal people living in the Havari Valley.
Illegal fishing, mining, logging and drug trafficking are rampant in the Itaqui River region they explored, an area known for violent clashes between different criminal groups, government agents and Aboriginal people. The two are documenting these conflicts.
Aboriginal rights groups said Pereira had received death threats before the trip began. Officials had earlier said Pereira’s work to stop illegal fishing in an Aboriginal reserve had angered local fishermen.
Phillips and Pereira, 2018
Phillips’ sister, Sian Phillips, said he knew the risks of traveling to the area, but he continued to report because of his commitment to telling Aboriginal stories and fighting for development models that could save the rainforest , he sees the work as “urgent” – time is running out to change the Brazilian capitalist model, a change that must be made in Brazilian society.
(Editor: Ah Qian)
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