Indigenous leader’s killer is convicted in Brazil, but tensions over land remain

Mongabay
May 7, 2024, 4:22 pm171 pts
On April 17, 2020, an Indigenous leader who fought to protect his ancestral land was violently killed in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Almost exactly four years later, a local bar owner has been convicted and sentenced to 18 years in prison for Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau’s murder. The ruling marks a rare case of…

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