Leader of the Guajajara Indians in Brazil was shot dead - Plataforma Media

Leader of the Guajajara Indians in Brazil was shot dead

The body of Zezico Guajajara, director of the Indigenous School Education Center of Azuru, was found, shot, on the access road to the Arariboia Indigenous Reserve, in the jurisdiction of the municipality of Arame.

The Arariboia Indigenous Land is a reserve of 413 thousand hectares shared by 12 thousand Indians of three different ethnicities and where conflicts between indigenous and loggers are recurrent.

Read more in Portuguese in Jornal de Notícias.

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