Brazilian Quilombolas Killed in Disputed Area in Bahia State

08/09/2017 - 10h02

Six members of a remnant quilombo area (former hideout for runaway slaves) were shot dead in Lençóis, in the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, on Sunday (6). In less than a month, eight quilombolas (inhabitants of a quilombo area) were killed in an area of land disputes in the State.

The site of the slaughter is the Quilombola Territory of Iúna, whose process of land regularization was initiated recently by Incra (National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform, in its Portuguese acronym).

The victims lived in neighboring houses and were killed inside their homes by men who were in an unidentified black vehicle.

No one was arrested. According to the police, there is a possibility that the crime was related to drug trafficking - two victims had police records for drug dealing.

PARÁ

The State Court of Pará determined on Tuesday (8) the release of the 13 policemen involved in the slaughter that killed ten rural workers in a camp in Pau D'Arco (Pará), a city 867 km south of Belém.

In the decision, the substitute judge of Redenção County (PA), Jun Kubota, chose not to renew the arrest warrant, claiming that detention was no longer necessary for the investigation to be completed.

The 13 officers - 11 from the Military Police and two from the Civil Police - had been arrested a month ago in a ruling by tenured judge Haroldo Silva da Fonseca.

Translated by MARINA DELLA VALLE

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	Divulgação/Assessoria Incra
	The site of the slaughter is the Quilombola Territory of Iúna, in the Chapada Diamantina, in the state of Bahia