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Leading Amazon dam rights activist, spouse and friend murdered in Brazil
by Jenny Gonzales on 27 March 2019
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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(5,624 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)zooks
(308 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)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.
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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.