June 24, 2022
18:06
Marcela Leiros – from Amazon Agency
BRASILIA – Lawmakers from the Senate and the House of Representatives have set a date to travel to the state of Amazonas to hear the authorities involved in the investigation into the deaths of Bruno Araújo Pereira, a licensed employee of the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) and british journalist Dominic Mark Phillips, “Dom Phillips”. It will be on Thursday 30th and Friday 1st, according to information given to AMAZON AGENCY. The trip to Manaus and Vale do Javari, where the two were murdered, is part of the agenda of the two external commissions created in the Congress.
From the House of Representatives, the following members have so far been confirmed: José Ricardo (PT-AM) – president of the commission -, Joenia Wapichana (Rede-RR), Vivi Reis (Pol – PA), João Daniel (PT-SE), Rodrigo Agostinho (PSB-SP), and Reginaldo Lopes (PT-MG). There is still the possibility that three other parliamentarians, whose names have not been informed, as well as their presences have not been confirmed, will embark with the delegation. From the Senate, the president of the commission, Randolfe Rodrigues (Rede-AP), will go.
In the region, the parliamentarians want to talk to the superintendent of the Federal Police (PF), Eduardo Fontes, responsible for the investigation, as well as the prisoners: Amarildo da Costa Oliveira, known as “Pelado”, Oseney da Costa Oliveira, “Dos Santos”, and Jeferson da Silva Lima, “Pelado da Dinha”, if there is no judicial impediment.
Minister doesn’t show up
This week, the Minister of Justice, Anderson Torres, was scheduled to appear in the Senate committee. He was invited to discuss the causes of the increase in criminality and attacks against indigenous people, quilombolas (descendants of runaway slaves from escaped slaves, descendants of runaway slaves, river dwellers, and journalists in the North region and other regions of the country, in addition to monitoring the measures taken by the Public Power in face of the murders of Bruno Araújo and Dom Phillips, but he did not attend the session.
The reasons for the minister’s absence were not given, but the parliamentary advisory board stated that he is “available to receive the parliamentarians of the commission”. Senator Randolfe Rodrigues told AMAZON AGENCY that, even with the minister’s absence, the goal of hearing him, as well as the minister of Justice and the president of FUNAI, Marcelo Xavier, is not discarded.
“We have to go to the proceedings, find out how the investigation is going, hear the Federal Police, if this is the case, and hear the prisoners, if there is no judicial impediment. After that, we will hear the Minister of Justice and the president of FUNAI”, he explained.
No dialogue with the Executive
The legal coordinator of the Union of Indigenous Peoples of the Javari Valley (Univaja), Eliesio Marubo, said on Wednesday, 23, that he is awaiting the opportunity for a dialogue with the Executive Power to talk about the problems of the Amazon. According to the indigenous representative, in addition to the external commissions in Congress, the Judiciary has already made itself available to hear the demands of the Javari Valley region, through the Attorney General of the Republic, Augusto Aras, who went to the region on Sunday, 19.
“It has a lot of the ideological issues. Certainly, if he was an evangelical or an indigenous person linked to agribusiness, he would have already had this proposition”, said Morumbo. “We are not closed to dialogue. We have information and we are willing to talk. We didn’t have, in any way [interlocution], neither from Funai, nor from any ministry, nor from anyone linked to the Executive Branch, only from the Judiciary and Legislative Power”, he explained.
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