Pereira and Phillips
Brazilian police say a suspect has confessed to burying the bodies of missing British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.
Detective Eduardo Fontes said the man, Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, took investigators to a site where human remains were dug up.
He said police would work with Interpol to confirm the bodies’ identities.
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Mr Phillips, 57, and Mr Pereira, 41, disappeared in a remote part of the Amazon rainforest that is rife with illegal poaching, mining and logging on 5 June.
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Univaja, the region’s indigenous association, was the first to alert authorities when the pair went missing.
The group expressed its “deep sadness” following the news conference.
It said of the men’s deaths: “Univaja understands their murder is a political crime, they were both human rights defenders and died doing work to look after us indigenous people from Vale do Javari.”
Human rights defenders and, as I understand it, Amazon defenders. The two are entangled. Indigenous people are a hindrance to the destructive exploitation of the Amazon, so defending them is also defending the Amazon.
Tiki-torch Nazis worried about being “replaced” are themselves the heirs of “replacers.” Perhaps the world would be in a less dire situation had the imperial projects of the original implementers of “repacement theory” not been so ruthlessly successful. A respect for and understanding of the world as something other than inert, convenient, raw material for exploitation might have saved us from the unfolding disaster we’ve rushed into.
Eh, I doubt it… the complexions of the exploiters might change but give or a take a few hundred years and you’d get the same results (once you get an agricultural revolution anyways).