Unrest Persists One Year After Amazon Rainforest Slayings of Journalist and Indigenous Expert

Commemorations are being held for British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who were murdered while documenting environmental crimes in the Amazon rainforest.
Ruben Dario da Silva Villar, known as "Colombia," allegedly led a transnational criminal fishing syndicate and accused of ordering the murders and hiding the bodies.
Friends, relatives and admirers gathered to call for justice and protection of indigenous lands a year after the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon rainforest.
Phillips and Pereira vanished on June 5, 2022, and a fisherman who had confronted indigenous patrols in the area confessed to killing them.
Some are calling on the government to do more to protect the Javari Valley, where drug runners and illegal poachers threaten the most isolated Indigenous groups in Brazil's Amazon.