The main event takes place at the Curva do S in the Eldorado do Carajas municipality, brings together authorities, social movements, and relatives of the victims, and launches a campaign to build a memorial in honor of the murdered farmers.
The event is part of the National Day of Struggle of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), which, since April 13, has been conducting mobilizations throughout the country in honor of the so-called “Martyrs of April.”
Marches, symbolic occupations, political training activities, and actions denouncing violence in rural areas have taken place over the last few days, in a context where peasant organizations are warning of the persistence of agrarian conflicts and land concentration.
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the massacre, which gave rise to the International Day of Peasant Struggle, the Chamber of Deputies held a solemn session on Thursday in which it advocated for greater access to land and the strengthening of healthy food production.
The Military Police of Para repressed on April 17, 1996, rural workers who were demanding land and killed 21 of them, in one of the most serious episodes of agrarian violence in Brazil.
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