On Tuesday morning, members of several of the indigenous ethnicities that reside in the protected Vale do Javari reserve, in the western Brazilian Amazon, gathered to pay their final respects to British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who were brutally murdered on the Itaquaí River on June 5.
After witnessing the funeral ritual at the headquarters of the Union of Indigenous Peoples of the Vale do Javari (Univaja), many of the few remaining Brazilian journalists and foreign correspondents who had flocked to the quiet town of Atalaia do Norte in recent weeks began making their way...
