Bolsonaro blamed as UN, activists denounce Amazon murders

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Atalaia Do Norte, Brazil (AFP) June 17, 2022

The United Nations as well as environmental and rights groups expressed outrage Thursday at the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, which they linked to President Jair Bolsonaro's willingness to allow commercial exploitation of the Brazilian Amazon. Veteran correspondent Phillips, 57, and Pereira, 41, went missing on June 5 in a remote part of the r

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