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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira will not be forgotten, vows Brazil’s Lula

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office as Brazil’s president in January. Photograph: André Penner/AP

Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira will not be forgotten, Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio 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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