Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira will not be forgotten, vows Brazil’s Lula
by Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro from on (#6C0JE)
President says last year's killings were result of encouragement of anarchy' in Amazon under Bolsonaro
Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira will not be forgotten, Brazil's president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has vowed, blaming their killings a year ago on the Amazonian anarchy" unleashed under his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.
Phillips, a British journalist, and Pereira, a Brazilian Indigenous expert, were shot dead by a group of illegal fishers on 5 June last year while travelling in the remote Javari valley near Brazil's border with Colombia and Peru.
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