Eldorado do Carajás massacre
Native name | Massacre de Eldorado do Carajás |
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English name | Eldorado do Carajás massacre |
Date | April 17, 1996 |
Location | Highway PA-150, Eldorado do Carajás, Pará, Brazil |
Type | Massacre |
Cause | Police brutality |
Target | Peaceful protesters of the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) |
Perpetrator | Brazilian military police |
Deaths | 19 |
Non-fatal injuries | 69 |
Sentence | May 7, 2012, two commanders jailed |
The Eldorado do Carajás massacre (Portuguese pronunciation:
Description
On April 17, 1996, 19 members of the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Landless Workers Movement, or MST) were shot dead, and 69 more injured, by Pará state military police at the "S" curve of highway PA-150 in Eldorado do Carajás municipality, in southern Pará state.[1] These people were part of a demonstration calling for the federal appropriation of a private ranch where the MST had mounted a camp called "Macaxeira" with almost 3000 families.
On the orders of the state secretary of public security, Paulo Sette Câmara, the police were ordered to clear the highway "at any cost".[2]
Designation as a massacre
The Portuguese word massacre (chacina) has been used repeatedly and consistently in the Brazilian press to describe the shooting deaths of these farmers. There are well over 100 Brazilian news internet sites which use the exact phrase "chacina de Eldorado de Carajás" to designate these killings.[citation needed]
Conviction
On May 7, 2012, sixteen years after the event, the two commanders of the Eldorado do Carajas massacre, in which 19 people were killed, were finally jailed.[citation needed]
Remembrance
The President of the Brazilian
In the arts
Swiss theatre director and political activist
See also
References
- ^ a b ""Much is monstrous" – Milo Rau's Antigone in the Amazon (May 13, 2023)". Lost Dramaturgin International. May 16, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
- ^ Amnesty.org Library
- ^ Foco, Congresso em (April 18, 2008). "Manchetes dos jornais de hoje – 18abr2008". Congresso em Foco (in Portuguese). Retrieved March 19, 2024.
- ^ "Antigone in the Amazon: Digital program" (PDF). Adelaide Festival. 2024.
- ^ "Acclaimed director Milo Rau brings 'Antigone' to the Amazon". France 24. April 21, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
- ^ Cappelle, Laura (May 15, 2023). "'Antigone in the Amazon' Review: The Drama Is Brazil's Land War". The New York Times. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
- ^ "Antigone in the Amazon". NTGent. January 22, 2024. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
- ^ "International Institute of Political Murder » Antigone in the Amazon". International Institute of Political Murder. April 17, 1996. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
- ^ "Antigone in the Amazon". Adelaide Festival. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
External links
- Barbosa, Catarina (April 17, 2021). "25 anos após Massacre de Eldorado do Carajás, violência no campo dispara no Brasil". Brasil de Fato (in Portuguese).
- "Brasil: Posibles ejecuciones extrajudiciales y temor por la seguridad: Campesinos sin tierra del estado de Pará" on Amnesty.orgLibrary
- Os 20 anos do massacre de Eldorado do Carajás (video)