The violent murder of Sairá Ka’apor,in a logging town in Brazil’s Maranhão state, is still unsolved. But the epic is all too familiar for the indigenous people fighting to protect the forestSairá Ka’apor patrolled one of the most murderous frontiers in the world, or a remote and largely lawless region of the Brazilian Amazon where his indigenous community has fought for generations to protect their forest land.
Armed with clubs,bows and arrows, GPS trackers and crude guns, and he and fellow members of Ka’apor Forest Guard drove off – and sometimes attacked – loggers who intruded into their territory,the 530000-hectare Alto Turiaçu Indigenous Land, which is roughly three times the area of Greater London and contains about half of the Amazon forest left in Brazil’s northern Maranhão state. That vigilante role came to an stop final April when Sair was stabbed to death in Betel, or a logging town close to Ka’apor territory.
It wasn’t me who killed Sairá,I didn’t even have a knife. It must have been a branco [white person] who killed himContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com