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The Guardian - UK
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Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

‘It’s so frustrating’: two years on and still no justice for Bruno and Dom murders

Relatives of British journalist Dom Phillips and activists hold a large poster with his image, left, and that of Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira, with the Portuguese message:
Relatives of DOm Phillips and activists at the first anniversary commemoration of the murders on 5 June, 2023. The two were were killed in the Amazon's Javari valley. Photograph: Bruna Prado/AP

Nearly two years after Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were murdered during a reporting trip in the Brazilian Amazon their families are still waiting for justice and activists fear their deaths will not be the last.

The British journalist and the Brazilian Indigenous expert were ambushed and killed on 5 June 2022 while travelling by boat to the river town of Atalaia do Norte. They had been investigating the criminal assault on Brazil’s second-largest Indigenous territories, the Javari valley, a vast expanse of rainforest that is home to the world’s largest concentration of uncontacted peoples.

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