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Alarm Raised over Reduced Investigation of 10 Campesino Deaths
Published 1 August 2017 (4 hours 28 minutes ago)
“Instead of the Federal Police augmenting ... their energy focused on the investigation, they're reducing it,” Frigo said.
Brazil's National Council of Human Rights and the Brazilian Committee of Human Rights Defenders are concerned with the investigations into the massacre of 10 rural workers on the Santa Lucia farm in Para state after the team of federal police investigating the crime was not renewed by the federal government and the federal police deputy leading the investigation has gone on vacation.
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On May 24, ten rural workers, nine men, and one woman, on the Santa Lucia farm in the town of Pau D'Arco were killed by Brazil's military and civilian police as part of an eviction order led by state forces.
Survivors, witnesses and victims' family members contradicted claims by the police that said they were met with a barrage of gunfire as soon as they arrived at the farm. The campesinos said that the police arrived on the scene shooting and made no attempt to inform anybody of a legal order, with some adding that the woman killed had a bullet wound in her back.
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http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Alarm-Raised-over-Reduced-Investigation-of-10-Campesino-Deaths-20170801-0011.html
