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Beyond the law

IT WAS A HUNTING SHOTGUN LIKE THE ONE used to murder Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira – and it was pointing straight at Julia Kanamari’s chest.

“You’ll be next,” she remembers the bleary-eyed gunman snarling after being caught smuggling a boat-load of illegally poached river turtles out of the Javari Valley Indigenous territory in the Brazilian Amazon.

The Indigenous leader, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, had confronted the man one November morning after spotting him and two accomplices on the Itaquaí river – the same waterway where the British journalist and

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