By Anthony Boadle
By Anthony Boadle
BRASILIA, Nov 4 (Reuters) – The federal government of the Brazilian state of Maranhao arrange a police activity drive on Monday to guard the Guajajara tribe from unlawful loggers that killed one among its warriors in a conflict over deforestation on their Amazon reservation.
Unlawful loggers ambushed an indigenous group that was shaped to guard the forest and shot useless one among its leaders and wounded one other on Friday, the tribe mentioned. It mentioned a logger additionally died within the shootout.
Paulo Paulino Guajajara, or Lobo (which implies ‘wolf’ in Portuguese), was looking contained in the Arariboia reservation when loggers opened hearth and shot him within the neck. One other Guajajara, Laercio, was wounded within the arm and again however managed to flee.
Regulation enforcement on indigenous reservations is a federal duty, however the Guajajara “guardians of the forest” have taken on the duty within the absence of federal safety and within the face of elevated invasions by armed loggers since right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro took workplace in January.
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