Pimenta Bueno/RO The cacique Deusmar Ferreira Saquirabiar, best known as ” Damião “, one of the leaders of the Reservation Mequéns, in Alta Floresta town, was killed by four shots in the chest, in the dawn of Friday, 23, near the Pimenta Buenos Bus station. Damião was in an Indian youths company and she talked to some people in the place. He was driving a Hilux pickup truck and received a hail of bullets in the parking of the bus station.
The titular delegate in Pimenta Bueno, Arismar Araújo, together with the Federal Police, investigates the circumstances that leaded to the Damiãos murder. The probable murderer of the Indian was filmed by the internal circuit of TV installed in the Bus station and he also approached Damião, and asked for a cigarette. When the cacique and the youth Indian were in the parking, he was called by the name and soon he was hailed by four shoots.
The wood exploration in the Reservation Mequéns might have been the cause of the crime. Rich place in cabreúva, quality wood and high priced in the international market, the Reservation has been explored in an illegal way by lumbermen for quite a long time. Damião would have given time so that the lumbermen would leave the place, threatening to denounce everything to the Federal Police. Besides the dispute for the wealth and exploration of the lands involved, Damião Saquirabiar and his children, as well as the other leaders, didnt have a good relationship.
The police officer Arismar Araújo said that the whole team of investigators of Pimenta Bueno is determined in the case and that the recording containing the mans images that talked toDamião is being analyzed. Because of the existent tracks, Araújo believes that the case will be solved in the next hours.
Funeral
The cacique Damião was buried on this Saturday in Cacoal. The deathwatch happened in a mortuary of the city. The family prohibited that the press accompanied the funereal retinue. Even the gate of the cemetery was closed to impede the journalists entrance.
The funeral that happened at the cemetery Santo Antônio was accompanied by a small group of family. No Indian of another group was present. According to an employee of Funai that didnt want to be identified, a part of the people who lives in Saquirabiá that lives in the village where Damião was cacique, couldnt arrive in Cacoal due to lack of conduction.
Source: Amazoniainview