Tributes paid to Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira a year on from their deaths
by Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro from Environment | The Guardian on (#6C2D0)
Hundreds gather in Rio and Belem to remember two men who worked to defend the Amazon and its Indigenous inhabitants
Indigenous leaders, politicians and friends and relatives of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira have paid tribute to the two men on the anniversary of their murders in the Brazilian Amazon.
The British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expert were ambushed and killed on 5 June 2022 while travelling by boat through the remote Javari valley region.
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