Pastoral Land Commission (CPT, in Portuguese)<\/a>, the Jos\u00e9 Cl\u00e1udio e Maria Institute (IZM, in Portuguese) and other organizations released a statement retelling the episode based on the encampers’ accounts.\u00a0<\/p>\nAccording to the document, around 16 workers were sleeping, and two others were preparing coffee in a collective shed when, at around 4 am (local time) on Friday (11), the place was raided by police officers, who shouted \u201cThat\u2019s over\u201d and shot people inside the shed. \u201cIn desperation and seeing nothing due to the darkness, people tried to escape the gunfire as best they could. The result was two dead, several wounded by bullets and four people arrested,\u201d reads the statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe narrative shared by police chief Moror\u00f3 and adopted by the Secretary of Public Security of the State of Para\u201d, reads the text referring to Ualame Machado, \u201cis that it was a heavily armed criminal organization, involved in illegal timber sales, cattle theft and other crimes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe result of the operation, which involved dozens of police officers, several vehicles and two helicopters, was the seizure of only seven shotguns and some ammunition. No heavy weapons, no chainsaws, no timber trucks, no stolen cattle, nothing else,\u201d reads the text, also signed by the Para Society for the Defense of Human Rights. \u201cFrom this perspective, the operation was a farce,\u201d it concludes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe workers didn’t die in a shooting, that version was made up,\u201d Polly Soares points out. \u201cThere is no shoot-out when a person is asleep and is surprised by a rain of bullets. This thesis is a lie, it’s intended to criminalize workers,\u201d says the MST leader.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe head of Deca, Ant\u00f4nio Moror\u00f3, was there during the torture episodes and murders. We demand his removal. He has no condition to remain in charge of the police station. And we believe that his presence will jeopardize the investigations. How are the police going to investigate itself?\u201d Soares asks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Asked about the accusations, the Para Civil Police said \u201cThe action was carried out in accordance with the law\u201d and that investigations into the case \u201care ongoing\u201d by Deca, the same police station that led the operation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eviction temporarily suspended<\/p>\n
The 12,229-hectare Mutamba farm, in the rural area of Maraba, is occupied by three landless rural families. The nucleus targeted by the police operation is about 500 meters from the headquarters of the Mutran family estate, and was almost evicted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In March, a repossession order was issued by Judge Amarildo Jos\u00e9 Mazutti, of the Maraba Agrarian Court. In May, however, it was temporarily suspended by Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In his decision, Zanin reinforces the obligation to adopt measures that, according to the Argument for Failure to Comply with a Fundamental Precept (ADPF, in Portuguese) 828, must precede forced removals. These include judicial inspections of the territory and debating the case in a land conflict commission at the Court of Justice.<\/p>\n
Cases of slave labor at the Mutamba Farm<\/p>\n
Located in southeastern Para, the Mutamba farm is part of a \u201cregion with a history of agrarian conflict and forced labor\u201d, says Para state deputy L\u00edvia Duarte, who is following the case. She has forwarded reports of execution and torture to Para’s security and human rights departments.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe area is not far from the Curva do S<\/em>,\u201d she says, referring to the place where the Eldorado do Caraj\u00e1s massacre<\/a> happened. \u201cIt’s a region, for example, where my family \u2013 my grandfather, my father \u2013 were subjected to slave labor throughout their lives,\u201d says Duarte.\u00a0<\/p>\nThe Mutamba farm, built on an area previously covered by chestnut trees cut down to make way for cattle pasture, was caught using slave labor in August 2002. On that occasion, 25 workers were rescued. Two years later, the company Jorge Mutran Exporta\u00e7\u00e3o e Importa\u00e7\u00e3o LTDA was included on the \u201cdirty list\u201d of slave labor and had to pay a fine of BRL 1.3 million (almost US$ 230,000) to the Workers’ Support Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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