Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian indigenous expert who was killed in the Amazon with British journalist Dom Phillips, is the tribe he spent his life on Friday. Defends given a moving see-off from the members of.
Xukuru members chanted funeral hymns and mourned at a solemn ceremony near Recife, where Pereira was born in northeastern Pernambuco.
A picture of Pereira, 41, was sitting in a coffin and covered with the flag of his favorite soccer team, Sports Recife.
"It's a huge loss, not only for us, but for all of Brazil, for those who fight to protect Mother Nature to save lives," Marcos Shukul told AFP.
Pereira and veteran correspondent Phillips, 57, went missing on June 5 in a remote area of a tropical rainforest raging with illegal mining, fishing, felling and drug trafficking.
Phillips is the author of dozens of articles about the Amazon and has contributed to theGuardiannewspapers and other major press outlets for many years.
When they were ambushed, he was traveling to the Javanese Valley with Pereira as a guide as part of his book study.
Police say the man was shot. Indigenous groups say it was a retaliation for exposing illegal fishermen in the area.
Pereira, an expert at FUNAI, the Brazilian indigenous affairs agency, was under multiple threats from criminals looking at isolated indigenous resources.
A man's body was handed over to his family on Thursday.
"Today, the land where he was born welcomes him. His body finds the heat of clay, plant roots, water, and soil," for the human rights of isolated indigenous people. The Astronomical Observatory said in a statement to those who worked for Pereira.
"This crime is just the tip of the iceberg of today's crisis in Brazil, caused by the way the country deals with indigenous issues," said Vania Fialho, a 56-year-old anthropologist who attended Wake. Said. AFP.
Pereira was married and had three children.
After the ceremony on Friday, his body was to be burned, but the Phillips family wakes up and burns on Sunday in Niteroy near Rio de Janeiro.
So far, four people have been arrested for crimes.
