Neglect and Harsh Justice in Amazon Region Where Pair Was Killed

Neglect and allegations of harsh justice plague the Amazon region where Bruno Pereira, an expert on Indigenous peoples, and Dom Phillips, a British journalist, were ambushed and killed last year. The non-Indigenous communities in the area frequently trespass onto Indigenous land to hunt and fish, and the government provides virtually no support to the remote and desperately poor communities. The crime has changed the life of Laurimar Lopes Alves, who was accused of illegal fishing and spent 124 days in prison without trial, and the family of Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, who confessed to the killings and is in a maximum-security prison thousands of kilometers away.