The Temporary External Committee of the Senate, created to follow the developments of the increase in violence in the Amazon region and the murders of the indigenist Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillipstoday (20) approved its work plan. 
According to the senators, the hearings will begin next Wednesday (22) with testimonies from representatives of the Union of Indigenous Peoples of the Javari Valley (Univaja) at 10 am and, at 2 pm, by the Minister of Justice, Anderson Torres, to be invited to to participate. The invitation will be voted on today at a meeting of the Senate Human Rights Commission (CDH).
In addition to the Minister of Justice, among the authorities who will also be called to the commission, although no date has been set, are the Attorney General of the Republic, Augusto Aras, who is in the Vale do Javari region, the president of Funai, Marcelo Xavier, and the mayor of Atalaia do Norte (AM), Denis Paiva.
According to the approved plan, the senators want to understand the possible relationship between the deaths of the indigenist and the English journalist with the illegal fishing and drug trafficking scheme. Another measure to be taken involves requesting the resumption and conclusion of the murder investigation, in Tabatinga (AM), in September 2019, of Maxciel Pereira dos Santos, ex-Funai.
Defender of the indigenous people of Vale do Javari, he worked in operations to combat hunting, fishing, mining and logging in the territory, which has the largest population of isolated indigenous people in the world. Max, as he was called by his friends, was murdered in Tabatinga in the presence of his stepdaughter and his wife.
security forces
Also during the commission’s work, the senators intend to survey and monitor which processes exist within the scope of the Federal Police and in state agencies that deal with the situation of drug trafficking in the North region and what measures have been taken.
Another decision approved is the request for the immediate dispatch of public security forces to guarantee the physical integrity of Funai’s employees in all the Vale do Javari Protection Bases – Quixito, Curuçá and Jandiatuba, as well as the headquarters of the Vale do Vale Regional Coordination Javari and the Vale do Javari Ethnoenvironmental Protection Front Coordination (CFPE-VJ).
The parliamentarians also want the immediate dispatch of public security forces to guarantee the physical integrity of the indigenous guards who make up the Univaja Surveillance Team (among them Orlando Possuelo and Tataco) and the coordinators of Univaja, Paulo Marubo, Eliésio Marubo and Eriberto Marubo, the Beth.
members
Composed of nine members, three from the Environment Commission, three from the Constitution and Justice Commission and three from the CHR, within a period of 60 days, the group, chaired by Senator Randolfe Rodrigues (Rede-AP), also intends to investigate in loco the causes of the increase in crime and attacks against indigenous peoples, quilombolas, riverine people and journalists in the North region and in other areas, as well as monitoring measures adopted since the disappearance of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, serving as a subsidy for any Commission request Parliamentary Survey (CPI).
