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Brazil ministers to visit site of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira’s murder

Brazil ministers to visit site of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira’s murder

Visit is part of push by Lula’s government to beat back illegal miners, loggers and poachers who wrought environmental havoc

Indigenous activists are planning to take some of Brazil’s top ministers to the spot where Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were murdered in the Amazon rainforest amid reports security forces are poised to launch a major environmental clampdown in the remote border region.

Leaders of Univaja, the Indigenous association for which Pereira worked in Brazil’s Javari valley, said senior politicians, including justice minister Flávio Dino and the minister for Indigenous peoples Sônia Guajajara, would travel there on 27 February.

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