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From DAZIBAO
ROJO;
Today we publish this letter
from Brazil LCP aware of its importance to the struggle for the democratic
revolution in Brazil and Latin America and to sweep imperialism from the face of
the Earth. Knowing that without the struggle of the peasantry, without mobilize
broad and deep you can not speak of real struggle against imperialism in any of
our countries.
OPEN LETTER FROM THE LEAGUE
OF POOR FARMERS (LCP) BRAZIL
HARASSMENT, THREATS AND
KILLINGS OF FARMERS AND THEIR LEADERS
On January 23 peasants
Enilson Ribeiro dos Santos
All this was done in broad
daylight, in a fairly busy area of town, in front of several witnesses
without worrying about anything. They acted, of course, with the assurance that
the police would not interfere in their cruel action. Enilson was one of the
coordinators of the LCP - League of Poor Peasants of Rondonia and Western
Amazon, he and Valdiro were leaders of the encampment Paul Justin, in the
municipality of Alto Paraíso, where the landowner Antonio Carlos Faitaroni with
his newly created "Cattlemen's Association Ariquemes "actually a
facade of a paramilitary organization of landowners Valley Jamari, threatened
the threatened leaders, hired thugs to steal, rob, torture and throw the
campers, including neighboring farmers and including a worker of a nearby farm,
with enforced disappearances and killings of peasant activists fighting for
land.
It is a case of the new modus
operandi defined by the landowners of this paramilitary organization to
eliminate peasants and their leaders in the struggle for land, through
"death squads" composed of armed men and police, protected and hidden
by the dome of the security zone of the state, to hide his own authorship,
making them appear as cases of common passion or common peasant disputes crime.
So it was with Justin Paul, killed sticks in Rio Pardo (district Porto Velho),
with Dona Terezinha, killed with an ax in the area Élcio Machado (in the
municipality Monte Black) and Nicinha, that on January 7, disappeared from camp
in Porto Velho, where he lived in an activist known for fighting against the
construction of plants Santo Antonio and Jirau, police concluded in record time
that was killed by another camp for trivial reasons. All these comrades were
leaders of the struggle for land. recently also in Piedras Maria Cruz, in
northern Minas, comrade José Osmar Rodrigues Almeida, suffered a skull fracture
stick stroke when he came home in the evening of 19 January. This demonstrates
that repressive plans latifundismo not limited to the northern region.
The cruelty of the landowners
has no limits. Joseph's brother Osmar Cleomar Rodrigues, leader of the LCP
northern Minas and south of Bahia , was killed
in an ambush by gunmen of big landowners in October 2014. I imagine the
suffering of his family, for having suffered in own skin as pain, because I'm
Renato brother Nathan, a peasant leader killed by military police and his
henchmen in Jacinópolis (in Buritis-RO) on April 9, 2012.
Made appalling and alarming
in all this it is how it has been operating the new general commander of the
military police in Rondonia, Colonel Ênedy Dias de Araujo, who suddenly and
only after 6 months of appointment of his predecessor, took office in the
General command headquarters without the usual assistance of these acts. The
very absence of the governor denotes some type of intervention or interference
outside the state administration. Ênedy took over for Buritis and Monte Black,
where farmers face for years to brutal criminal attacks of the invaders land
landowners against peasants demonstrations denouncing the crimes of the
landowners.
In Ariquemes on 24 February
2016. It was mounted a theater commissioned this commander, distilling his gall
always against the poor peasants and landless said:
"Who I invade, destroy,
torture, they kill and burn properties can only be called terrorists. These
bands must be punished with the rigor of the law, if possible, the National
Security Act, which provides this type of criminal action. I determining the
governor Confucius and Security secretary to act directly in combating land
conflicts in the region. I ordered the 7th Battalion to watch and there was a
quiet time during my time here. We will give special attention to the Valley
Jamari by this problem involving violence in the field. "
This attitude and this statement
clearly suggests that promotion and newly appointed general command are awards
for their services provided to landowners to persecute the poor peasants, the
LCP and give coverage to the criminal actions of armed criminals and police
against families of poor farmers who suffer in their struggle for a piece of
land.
Monte Buritis and Black are
part of this region Valle Jamari also like others in the State of Rondonia,
landowners, with the full support of successive governors have practiced the
occupation of public lands and the exploitation of slave labor. To this end all
crimes against peasants are committed by gunmen and police: brutal evictions of
families, theft, destruction of houses, fields and livestock, attacks on the
elderly, women and children; threats, kidnappings and torture, detentions,
forced disappearances and killings.
All this, plus the complicity
of the National Agrarian Ombudsman Gercino Jose, concealment veiled by the
governor Confucius Moura and the Ênedy blind eye element, said on the same
occasion went further and also congratulated the police:
"I am very proud to come
here, speak, greet and look into the eyes of each military police here."
But no one expected anything
different from this gentleman, prime suspect of leading a group of thugs,
soldiers, prison officers and police heavily armed private security giving the
landowners in Buritis and the region. This is a report that the military police
itself presented at the 733rd meeting of the Commission on Fight contrala rural
violence in Porto Velho Santos
But when one of the criminals
died, military police raided and ransacked the headquarters of several LCP
seized flags, documents, video cameras, camcorders, computer, money and
peasants were arrested Kermit Joel and Dapple. after a campaign of denunciation
and support these companions were all acquitted by the total lack of evidence,
despite having been detained for months and years in the case of Ruco. After
processes, demoralized, finally confessed Ênedy that persecuted the LCP and did
not investigate any other possibility, of all that was in the case. In 2004,
farmers reported that Ênedy received a truckload of cattle from one landowner
of the region Jaru to delete a camp of peasants who invaded their lands.
Because of this complaint made by the villagers, he was chased the Peasant
Resistance newspaper allegations reported, abolished the posts of those who
sold the paper and the printer that prints it, until you reach the height wish
to exercise censorship, demanding to see the content of information materials
peasants and LCP before they are printed!
When Ênedy took command of
the 7th BatallónPM in Ariquemes-RO, alarmingly increased the number of poor in
the city killed by "death squads" formed by the police, such as the
famous "black" bikes. Like the violent evictions and repression of
peasants fighting for land. In July 2012, under his leadership, the PM cleared
and were arrested 22 peasants camped in the Stivanin farm, on Highway 257, this
municipality.
They committed numerous
ill-treatment and arbitrary acts against workers, but this man had the courage
to say, in an electronic message to the ombudsman Gercino Joseph: "I
inform you that were guaranteed with all constitutional guarantees prisoners
being followed all principles of human rights, personal integrity and
respectful of everyone ". He said that "information" that the
goal of the LCP was to sell land and timber harvesting. Funny how Colonel Ênedy
never statements made about the information on the Glebas Rio Alto and San
Sebastián, which covers 7 municipalities in the Jamari valley, told by the
INCRA in the 1990s in 4,000 small batches, for " agrarian reform ",
but they were overrun by the owners, without ever delivered to any of the
hundreds of thousands of landless poor of this state.
It was during the Ênedy term
in the 1st Cia. in Jaru and then in the 7th Battalion (Ariquemes) that several
leaders of the LCP and other peasant movements were killed, as Tonha partner
and Seraphim, Oziel, Ze Bentão, Élcio, Gilson, Nathan and Renato as many
others.
In several interviews he has
granted only since January Ênedy Colonel said it would resume rural patrols to
protect the inhabitants. Now, under his command, in vehicles PM and GOE he made
arbitrary rounds in the areas of Canaan ,
Sunray and Renato Nathan 2: They threatened to arrest farmers who were in a
grocery store or walking on the road, photographed faces and the number of
vehicles of residents and confiscated their bicycles. But not only farmers are
victims of abuse of power by Colonel Ênedy. He ordered the violent eviction and
arrest of homeless families (field "Dilma Rousseff"), in Porto Velho
It is also curious, at least,
intense and frantic publicity around Ênedy, in a clear attempt to manufacture a
positive image of it. The public relations MP Ariquemes, Ricardo Schawantes, a
pseudo-journalist with Channel 35, said during the interview with Colonel
Ênedy, the population of the city received "with joy" the news that
he would assume overall command of the P.M. If so beloved as he has promised,
how to explain the measly 1,170 votes received by all Rondônia, in the last
election, when he ran for state deputy for the PMDB?
The farmers no longer endure
more. LCP workers, the CPT and other democratic entities are tired of
denouncing the abuses and injustices suffered in notes, materials news, files,
photos, videos, documents, police reports. We've lost count of how many public
events, demonstrations, public hearings, meetings in Brasilia
Let us now, with the
atrocities committed by armed men on January 31 in the Tucumã hacienda in
Cujubim, another municipality
of Valle Jamari
It is also important to
mention the psychological warfare, where the mercenary press releases
slandering the peasants to justify the crimes of landlordism and the old state.
He reported that Enilson and Valdiro were drug traffickers, as they did with my
brother, Nathan Renato. In an interview with Channel 35, in 2012, Colonel
Ênedy, then commander 7 BPM, hinted that he was a bad guy highly dangerous,
presented as "proof" GPS "next generation" that was in his
waist, when his cowardly murder. But what Ênedy not say is that my brother was
a surveyor and was responsible for providing services to the works of Light
program for everyone in the area of Canaan .
Police searched the lot and the cabin of my brother, BR 421, in the Capivari
area. Without the consent and presence of any relative, reviewed all the
furniture and objects, dug several holes surrounding the house, but even found
neither a knife, only books, newspapers, brochures, posters and other of the
LCP and other popular movements and democratic, GPS deposits. The investigation
of his murder is an aberration, all pages are accusations that he was an arms
dealer, thief of earth and wood and gunman. About possible authors, only one
line:
"It would have been
possibly killed by reckoning."
It's the same playbook used
to justify the killing of poor and black youth, mainly in the slums and poor
neighborhoods of cities, by police forces: discredit, demonize and demonize
their victims. In the case of field highlight to eliminate the leaders of the
farmers who are struggling for land to satisfy mafias landowners, real land
thieves, drug dealers and arms traffickers, devastating forests and the
environment, appropriators of public money, the corrupt political funding and
supporters of this rotten political system is falling apart.
Enilson history is like my
brother, Renato, and the same of many other children of poor peasants who work
long and hard and yet we can never get the land. In the LCP got a piece of
land, we organize to help others to win this right and we have raised our
awareness of the Brazilian reality, explanations for such exploitation and how
profoundly change our country. And it is precisely this awareness and decision
they killed and many others are seriously threatened, like them.
We are aware of the official
and unofficial meetings dome security old state where those responsible for the
different levels of state government planned to suppress the militant peasant
movement, especially the LCP, in addition to spreading the goal of eliminating
physically their leaders and activists. We know that several leaders have been
monitored, peasant activists and supporters and those responsible have spoken
clearly retention is not necessary, you have to do is "Giving them the
way."
We have no doubt what that
means. I was already followed, I received death threats and have information
that I am being investigated by federal police and fear for my life and my
family. Similarly, Joseph Fonseca, better known as Pele, and several others.
It's a real hunt against militant leaders struggle of the earth. But none of
this can intimidate us, all this fascist reaction only shows that we are on a
right track and that only with the struggle of the peasants can conquer his
dream of a piece of land and like all farm workers and the city the conquest of
a new democracy for our country.
I urge every farmer, every
worker, teachers, students, workers in general, small and medium businesses,
medium owners Democrats to rise up in defense of the lives of leaders
threatened many other activists and farmers to be strengthened the struggle to
eliminate so much injustice, so many crimes of landlordism, fascism and state
terrorism. The serious political, economic and social situation in which is
immersed the Brazilian nation can not be changed for the liberation of our
people and independence of our country in the dispute between the corrupt and
rotten factions involving all these electoral parties. one new truly democratic
popular movement to sweep all this rot that has transformed the old state, its
institutions and its corrupt political system through the vigorous action of
the working masses is needed.
We must continue destroying
the latifundia, what is most backward in the country, the only condition to
open the way to build a new Brazil
José Gonçalves Pereira
Jaru, February 2016
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