Brazilian Dam Rights Activist, Along With Husband & Friend Murdered In Her Home In Para State
Dilma Ferreira Silva, regional coordinator of the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) in the Tucuruí region of Pará state, was murdered last Friday at her home in the rural settlement of Salvador Allende, along with her husband, Claudionor Costa da Silva, and Hilton Lopes, a friend of the couple.
Hours earlier, neighbors saw three motorcycles ridden by five men arrive in front of Silva’s house. Shortly thereafter, very loud music began playing inside, and continued to play throughout the night — not typical behavior for the couple, according to neighbors. The three were tied up and gagged, and the two men were killed first. Then the killers cut Silva’s throat.
Typically, murders of environmental, landless movement and indigenous activists in the Amazon go unsolved. So it came as a surprise when late on Tuesday, MAB leaders were interrupted during a meeting with the Secretary of Public Security and Social Defense of Pará, Ualame Machado, and told that arrests had been made in the case.
Machado received a phone call from the Civil Police who said that had detained a large land owner, businessman and farmer, Fernando Ferreira Rosa Filho, known as Fernando Shalom. Filho owns rural properties, a supermarket and a hotel in the municipality of Novo Repartimento, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the Tucuruí dam.
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