Land Rights Activist Shot Dead in Brazilian Hospital
Published 21 March 2017
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Waldomiro Costa Pereira, an activist with the Landless Workers Movement, MST, was killed Monday when gunmen stormed a hospital in Parauapebas in northeastern Brazils Para state, activists said in a statement.
Five armed men burst into a small town hospital in the Brazilian Amazon, surrounded security guards and shot dead the prominent land rights activist, in the latest deadly attack on land campaigners.
The motive for Pereiras murder was unclear, the MST said, but the activist had been recovering in the hospital from a previous assassination attempt.
This is yet another murder of workers in the state of Para, the MST said in a statement. Impunity has become commonplace as has the action of criminal militia groups, the group said, adding that Pereira was a longtime activist in the struggle for agrarian reform.
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