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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
Fri Mar 29, 2019, 07:13 PM Mar 2019

Leading Amazon dam rights activist, spouse and friend murdered in Brazil

Leading Amazon dam rights activist, spouse and friend murdered in Brazil
by Jenny Gonzales on 27 March 2019

  • Dilma Ferreira Silva, long time regional coordinator of the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) in the Tucuruí region of Pará state, was brutally murdered last Friday at her home, along with her husband, Claudionor Costa da Silva, and Hilton Lopes, a friend.

  • Silva was one of 32,000 people displaced during the construction of the Tucuruí mega-dam. The internationally recognized activist has in recent years been pushing the Brazilian government to adopt legislation establishing the rights of those displaced by dams, providing them with compensation; the government has so far done little to create such laws.

  • The killers of public officials, environmentalists, landless movement and indigenous activists in the Amazon are rarely found or brought to justice. However, in this case, Civil Police have arrested a large landowner, farmer and businessman, Fernando Ferreira Rosa Filho, known as Fernando Shalom.

  • While the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and deputies in the Brazilian Congress, have condemned the killing of dam activist Silva, her husband and friend, the Bolsonaro administration has failed to issue a statement of any kind.

  • More:
    https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/leading-amazon-dam-rights-activist-spouse-and-friend-murdered-in-brazil/

    Environment and energy:
    https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127125446



    Fernando Ferreira Rosa Filho was taken into custody and is believed to be
    the mastermind behind the tragic murder.



    Dilma Ferreira Silva (in foreground, right) during the National Meeting of Women Affected by Dams,
    organized by the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) in Brasília, in 2011. Image courtesy of MAB


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    Leading Amazon dam rights activist, spouse and friend murdered in Brazil (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2019 OP
    oh hell. my boss is about to retire. he's going there to build houses for some charity. Kurt V. Mar 2019 #1
    It's just not a very happy place these days, for many. Sad. n/t Judi Lynn Mar 2019 #3
    So profoundly horrible and sad. May those who did this rot. zooks Mar 2019 #2
    What's so very, very horrible is that this isn't the only wealthy landowner Judi Lynn Mar 2019 #4

    Judi Lynn

    (160,542 posts)
    4. What's so very, very horrible is that this isn't the only wealthy landowner
    Fri Mar 29, 2019, 09:27 PM
    Mar 2019

    who has killed or contracted to murder a dedicated activist in Brazil.

    It wasn't too many years ago that Dorothy Strang, a US nun who went there to work to defend the forests people and protect their world from the greedy powerful landowners who always want to destroy the trees and take the land which will never belong to them and make themselves even wealthier, at the expense of human lives directly and the lives of the whole world as more of the earth's lungs are destroyed for their greed.

    Dorothy Stang took Brazilian citizenship, expecting to live the rest of her life fighting for the people, and for the forests. She had no idea she would only have a much shorter time to do this than she had believed, when another very wealthy landowner hired some men to ride horses up to her, in the forest, and shoot her down, nearly point-blank.







    (A marker planted where Dorothy Strang
    dropped when she was murdered)



    People walk 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) carrying
    the coffin containing the body of American
    missionary Dorothy Stang.

    ~ ~ ~

    The evil murder of the latest victim Dilma and her husband should never be forgotten, and the world should be forced to recognize this story has been played out throughout the Americas, repeatedly, going all the way into Central America and Mexico beyond that. People have been treated with savage hatred who got in the way of greedy people wanting to take the land which never has belonged to them, and morally will never belong to them, and use it for their own filthy profit.

    Willing to murder to steal something which should NEVER be allowed to fall into their hands.

    Pure evil, over and over.

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