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End of impunity for Indigenous killings in sight for Brazil’s Guajajara ‹ Stigmatis News ‹ Reader — WordPress.com

  • Indigenous forest guardian Paulo Paulino Guajajara was killed in November 2019 in an alleged ambush by illegal loggers in the Arariboia Indigenous Territory in Brazil’s Maranhão state.
  • Mongabay’s Karla Mendes, who interviewed Paulo for a documentary film nine months before his death, returned to Arariboia in August 2023 to talk with his family and the other guardian who survived the attack, Laércio Guajajara, and shine a light on a case that still hasn’t gone to trial after four years.
  • “If those invaders had managed to kill us both, me and Paulo, they were going to hide us in the forest. Who would find us? Nobody was ever going to find me or Paulo again in a forest of that size,” Laércio says of his will to warn the guardians about Paulo’s murder, even as he suffered four gunshot wounds.
  • Justice may soon be on the horizon for the Guajajara people: Paulo’s case will be the first killing of an Indigenous defender that will go before a federal jury, likely in the first half of 2024, after a court in late October denied a motion by those accused to try the case in state court. 

Forest guardian Paulo Paulino Guajajara was killed in an alleged ambush by loggers in the Brazilian Amazon. He posed for this photo showing a bullet found in an illegal logging camp in the Arariboia Indigenous Territory on Feb. 1, 2019, nine months before his death. Image by Karla Mendes/Mongabay.

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