Indigenous boy, 15, murdered on Brazil's Amazon border
by Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro from Environment | The Guardian on (#4WHZV)
Erisvan Soares Guajajara's body was found with knife wounds in Maranhio region
A 15-year-old indigenous boy has been murdered in Brazil on the edge of a heavily deforested indigenous reserve in the state of Maranhio, on the fringes of the Amazon.
The murder, the fourth from the Guajajara tribe in recent weeks, came as a wave of racist abuse against indigenous people swept social media in the state.
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