Virgilio Trujillo Arana, a 38-year-old indigenous Uwottuja man, was shot within the head thrice within the metropolis of Puerto Ayacucho
A report from London’s Guardian.
A Venezuelan indigenous chief who was an opponent of armed teams and unlawful mining has been shot useless within the Amazonas state capital, a non-governmental group and three folks with information of the case stated.
Virgilio Trujillo Arana, a 38-year-old indigenous Uwottuja man, was a defender of the Venezuelan Amazon and had arrange group teams to behave as guardians of the Autana municipality of Amazonas.
Arana was shot within the head thrice by a gunman who fled to a ready car in Thursday’s assault within the metropolis of Puerto Ayacucho. He had reportedly obtained threats regarding his work.
“In life, Trujillo Arana strongly opposed the presence of overseas teams and unlawful mining exploitation within the indigenous territories of the Uwottuja folks, within the Alto Guayapo space,” indigenous rights NGO AC Kape Kape wrote on Twitter.
The Uwottuja group is made up of about 15,000 folks.
Non-governmental organizations and a United Nations report have denounced the presence of violent prison teams that management gold mines within the jungle.
The ministry of communication and knowledge and the prosecutor’s workplace didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Communities from the city of Uwottuja introduced final February their choice to defend their territory in opposition to a “silent invasion” by prison teams, rejecting unlawful mining exploitation in addition to the usage of their land for illicit actions.
Mining has been prohibited since 1989 in Venezuela’s southern Amazonas state, which isn’t a part of the so-called Arco Minero, or Mining Arc, a gold exploitation zone 111,000 sq km created by decree in 2016 by the federal government of President Nicolas Maduro.
The workplace of United Nations excessive commissioner for human rights Michelle Bachelet has requested the federal government to regularize mining actions and assure that they’re carried out underneath worldwide and environmental requirements.