Brazil's uncontacted Indians kill a government coordinator with a crush

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A crush was enough to end his life.

, a coordinator of the

of Brazil (Funai), the state body that takes care of indigenous issues, died on Wednesday after being

in the Brazilian state of Rondônia.

Rieli, 56, was one of the most respected experts in the region.

He died doing his work in the

, where in recent weeks, in addition to this indigenous people, natives of other ethnic groups were seen, most of whom continue to live in isolation and have never contacted people not natives.

Funai decided to make a

, given the constant invasions of loggers and ranchers.

Rieli, who defended non-contact and the protection of the local population, asked for

conflict

and carry out remote monitoring, to better understand the migratory movements of isolated peoples.

Police officer Paulo Ricardo Bressa accompanied him on that mission and witnessed his death.

.

"We only heard the noise of the arrow, which hit him in the chest. He gave a cry, tore it off and ran backwards ... he ran about 50, 60 meters, until he fell practically dead. We managed to carry him to the The car we had on the road and we brought him to the hospital, but he arrived lifeless. Unfortunately, our friend left, "the agent explained to the local press.

.

"Brazil lost one of the best indigenous people today, he was one of the last ... the new generation has been learning with these people and with others who are already very old," said indigenous leader

, from the Union of Indigenous Peoples of the Javari Valley, one of the regions with the most indigenous people in voluntary isolation in the world.

In the 1980s, Rieli

, the legal process that ensures that this land belongs to the indigenous people and can only be administered by them.

In this 'reserve', of

(more than twice the size of the Community of Madrid) live

.

They belong to

(the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau, the Amondawa, the Juma, the Oro Win, and five other groups that were never contacted.

Last August,

uncontacted

in Seringueira, the town where the Funai coordinator was assassinated.

At that time,

.

"It is strange because in a territory of such an extension, with enormous wealth of food such as game, fish and wild fruits, there would be no reason to leave their lands, and it is not normal for them to move like this. They are probably being expelled," warned the Missionary Indigenous Council.

Since then, Funai workers such as Rieli remarked to the

, to prevent the spread of diseases.

Since the 1980s, with the redemocratization, the Brazilian State determined the

.

Brazilian natives who never had contact with the outside can remain isolated if they so wish.

However,

, which ends up exposing them to enormous risks and force displacement.

The Funai has a palliative function and on very specific occasions it intervenes to avoid conflicts, also between rival ethnic groups.

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