Violence in the countryside: another murder.
Three days after the death of a couple of extractivists in Pará, peasant leader Adelino Ramos, known as Dinho, was shot dead in Rondônia.
247, with information from Agência Estado – A new escalation of violence plagues rural regions of the Amazon. Three days after the death of a couple of extractivists in Pará, another community leader from the Amazon was executed. Farmer and leader of the Corumbiara Peasant Movement, Adelino Ramos, known as Dinho, was killed today (27), around 10 am, in the district of Vista Alegre do Abunã, in Porto Velho (RO). According to the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), Dinho was selling vegetables he produced in the camp where he lives when he was shot dead by a motorcyclist.
The farmer had been receiving death threats for denouncing the actions of loggers on the border between the states of Acre, Amazonas, and Rondônia. Along with other landless workers, Dinho was demanding the creation of a land reform settlement in the region. According to the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), the situation in the region became tense in recent days after an operation by the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama), which seized timber and cattle raised in irregular areas. In July of last year, Dinho even warned the national agrarian ombudsman, Gercino Silva, that he was being threatened, according to the CPT.
The Corumbiara Peasant Movement was created after a confrontation between a group of landless workers and military police in August 1995, at the Santa Elina Farm. Twelve farmers were killed in the incident.
On Tuesday morning (24), extractive leaders José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and Maria do Espírito Santo da Silva were executed in Nova Ipixuna, in Pará. According to the police, they were hit by several shots when they were crossing a bridge on the way to the rural community where they lived. Like Dinho, the couple had also been receiving death threats.