Two members of Brazil's Land Employees' Motion (MST) have been killed by gunmen throughout an assault that injured six others within the state of São Paulo (southeast), President Lula's authorities introduced Saturday.
The Justice Division has ordered federal police to start investigating the “human rights violation,” in line with a press release shared by way of X by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a decades-long ally of the MST, a flagship motion of the Brazilian left.
The assault was dedicated on the night time of Friday to Saturday within the camp of Olga Benariou, locally of Tremebe.
“President Lula referred to as the nationwide headquarters of the MST and expressed his solidarity with the motion and the households” of the victims, the collective of landless staff additionally stated by way of X.
“The our bodies of the 2 victims are nonetheless within the forensic institute and the vigil is deliberate for tomorrow (i.e. at present Sunday)”, added this motion, which was based in 1984.
Based on Paulo Teixeira, the minister of Rural Improvement and Household Agriculture, who went to the scene, “a complete of eight individuals” have been hit by bullets, and one of many activists killed within the assault was Valjire do Nascimento, 52, a pacesetter of the motion in state.
MST nationwide coordinator Zilmar Maurou informed the UOL information web site that the activist was hit by bullets within the head — proof that “proves that the intent was to kill him.”
The MST, which was born because the army dictatorship (1964-1985) was ending, is looking for deep agrarian reform in Brazil, an enormous nation the place a lot of the arable land is concentrated in enormous estates or farms.
The modus operandi of the motion is to interact in land occupations as a way to press for land redistribution, which normally causes tensions with landowners and their significantly highly effective foyer.
Supply: APE-MPE-AFP
