Univaja (Union of Javari Valley Indigenous Organizations (Univaja) reported this Sunday afternoon (12) that a ship was found in the search area for native Bruno Araújo Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips in the Javari Valley in Amazonas. week passed.
Operation Javari teams conducting the search found on Saturday the 11th where traces were visible, such as the edge of a valley where a ship might have drifted. The ship was found near this location and forwarded to the Federal Police, along with information about the expedition.
PF has yet to disclose whether the ship belongs to Amarildo da Costa Oliveira, better known as Pelado, who was temporarily detained by court order on suspicion of involvement in the couple’s disappearance.
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On Friday (10), teams as part of Operation Javari found “apparently human organic material” in the Itaquaí River, near the port of Atalaia do Norte in Amazonas.
The content was submitted for expert analysis by the Federal Police National Criminalistics Institute. Blood samples found on Amarildo’s ship were found on Thursday (9.
Also on Saturday, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued a resolution containing requests to the Brazilian government regarding the whereabouts of the duo.
The organization, affiliated with the Organization of American States (OAS), has asked Brazil to redouble its search efforts and said the country did not act quickly after receiving a complaint about the disappearance.
According to the document, the state’s efforts were to begin after a massive mobilization of civil society and the press, and measures taken so far have been inadequate considering, among other technical difficulties, the expansion of the region.
Also Saturday, the Federal Police, which coordinates a crisis committee in the Amazonas capital, announced in a memo that reports of bodies found, particularly circulating on social networks, were false.
Ferreira and Phillips got lost en route from the Ribeirinha São Rafael community to the city of Atalaia do Norte.
According to the assets, the natives are the target of threats from loggers and prospectors trying to invade indigenous lands in the area. He is considered an experienced and in-depth knowledge of the region, as he was the regional coordinator of the National Indian Foundation (Funai) in Atalaia do Norte for many years.
Source: CNN Brazil
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