Brazilian 公式の/役人 for uncontacted アマゾン tribes killed by indigenous arrow

BRASILIA, Sept 10 (Reuters) - A 政府 公式の/役人 and 主要な 専門家 on 孤立するd アマゾン tribes was killed by an arrow that struck him in the chest as he approached an indigenous group he was 捜し出すing to 保護物,者, friends and a police 証言,証人/目撃する said on Thursday.

Rieli Franciscato, 56, had spent his career as an 公式の/役人 in the 政府's indigenous 事件/事情/状勢s 機関 Funai, working to 始める,決める up 保留(地)/予約s that 保護する uncontacted tribes.

On Wednesday, as he moved の近くに to a hitherto uncontacted indigenous group, he was 攻撃する,衝突する by an arrow above the heart in the forest 近づく the Uru Eu Wau Wau 保留(地)/予約 in the western Brazilian 明言する/公表する of Rondonia 近づく the 国境 with Bolivia.

"He cried out, pulled the arrow from his chest, ran 50 メーターs and 崩壊(する)d, lifeless," a policeman who …を伴ってd the 探検隊/遠征隊 said in an 音声部の 地位,任命するd on social マスコミ.

The Kanind? ethno-環境の 弁護 NGO he helped 設立する in the 1980s said the indigenous group had no ability to distinguish between a friend or a 敵 from the outside world.

His death comes at a time when indigenous people in Brazil are under 増加するing 脅し from 侵略s by 違法な land grabbers, loggers and gold 鉱夫s, emboldened by the 政策s of far-権利 大統領 Jair Bolsonaro who wants to develop the アマゾン and 減ずる the size of indigenous 保留(地)/予約s.

"We are feeling bewildered by so many deaths in this Brazil that no longer 尊敬(する)・点s indigenous 権利s," said Ivaneide Cardozo, his friend and co-創立者 of the Kanind? 協会. (報告(する)/憶測ing by Anthony Boadle; Editing by David Gregorio)

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