In the beginning of 2013, another two MST leaders - Cicero Guedes and Dona Regina - were brutally murdered in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Cícero, age 48, was shot in the head on January 25, 2013, when he left the settlement on his bicycle. Regina dos Santos Pinho, age 56, was brutally murdered on February 7, 2013 in the settlement Zumbi dos Palmares, state of Rio de Janeiro.
In 2004, Andriano Chafik, a large-scale landowner in Brazil, led a massacre on a farm in Felisburgo killing five and wounding another twelve landless rural workers who were occupying unproductive land - nine years later, despite his confession, Chafik remains free and no one has been brought to justice.
This impunity must end!
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The Felisburgo Massacre: Last Saturday, February 15, 2013, about 100 of the workers of the MST and supporters of the Agrarian Reform, held an action to launch the
Campaign for Justice for Felisburgo in the Settlement Emiliano Zapata, in Uberlândia, Triangulo Mineiro[i]. Read more here.
The Assassination of Cicero Guedes: Rural worker and MST activist Cícero Guedes was assassinated by gunmen on Friday, January 25 near the Cambahyba Mill, in the township of
Campos dos Goytacazes (RJ). Read more here.
The Murder of Regina dos Santos Pinho: The murder of the rural farmer Regina occurs eleven days after t
he execution of Cicero Guedes dos Santos, 48, leader of the MST in Campos dos Goytacazes (RJ). Read more here.