From: "Bob Malecki" <malecki-AT-algonet.se>
Subject: M-TH: VB: New massacre in Brazil
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 07:10:27 +0200




Ämne: New massacre in Brazil


>STOP NEW PEASANT MASSACRES IN BRAZIL!
>
>On March 26 a new peasant massacre shaken Brazil. Two important leaders
>of the Land-less Movement (MST) where assassinated in Pará.
>Para is a northern state in which the Amazon meets the sea. It is a very
>rich area for agriculture and mining. The killings happened in the city
>of Paraupebas (500 miles from Belém, Pará’s capital) and in the same
>municipality (Eldorado dos Carajás) in which happened two years a famous
>massacre.
>Onacílio Araujo  de Barros "Fusquinha", a member of the MST’s National
>Executive Committee and of the PSTU (United Socialist Workers Party,
>affiliated to the LIT-Fourth International) and Valentim da Silva Serra
>"Doutor", the MST’s state co-ordinator, where murdered.
>Both comrades where survivors of the previous massacre. Twelve Military
>Police (11 of them participated in the previous carnage) and 30 armed
>mercenaries where defending the land-owner Carlos Antônio da Costa. When
>the 550 families which organised the occupation of that properties two
>days ago where peacefully leaving in order to meet the 690 families
>which participated in a former occupation the repressive forces attacked
>them. Valentim da Silva Serra "Doutor" was injured and taking prisoners.
>Few hours later his body was find with plenty ballots and signs of
>sadism.
>The land-owner previously appropriated illegally this land (150
>hectares) and maintained his control base on the force.
>The governor of that province is Amir Gabriel, who is from the same
>party (PSDB) as the Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
>Bel’em, the state’s capital, is ruled by the coalition "belém Popular",
>which is integrated by the Brazilian Workers Party (PT), the former
>pro-Albanian Stalinists (PC do B) and the former pro-Moscow "Communists"
>(PPS). All of them have responsibility in this new massacre.
>The Brazilian government prepared that massacre when last week they
>adopted a new set of laws which declared that land seizures are a crime.
>Massive demonstrations happened on the 27 march in Paraupebas and Belém.
>Brazil had tens of million of unemployed, sub-employed and land-less
>peasants. For the so-call Social Democrat government it is important to
>preserve the ancient and anti-historic rural property-owner, despite
>that them are using slave or servant relations and are destroying the
>Amazon and the ecology. Currently Rondonia is experienced the big fire
>in the Amazon’s recorder history. Hundreds of species are threatened or
>being disappear.   It is capitalism, and its necessity of accumulating
>profits, who is responsible for the irresponsible way in which the
>world’s biggest forest jungle is being liquidated and of the terrible
>peoples’ tragedies.
>The peasants, workers and shanty-town poor have to organise councils and
>militias with the aim to defend themselves. The masses have to take the
>streets. All the big states have to be in the hands of the peasants.
>Only the people who work the land should entitled to be the owners. We
>are for a workers and peasant alliance, for the nationalisation of all
>the big states, for collective rrural communes and for a workers and
>peasant government.
>We call for the international left to organise actions, pickets and
>petitions against the Brazilian government. When Cardoso was in London,
>an impressive contingent "welcomed" him. We need a big international
>protest.
>
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