Without escorts, leader of the Amazon have to leave your community.
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Escort leadership threatened by loggers in southern Amazonas is interrupted by SEDH; at risk of life, Nilcilene had to leave their community.
Once Nilcilene Miguel de Lima left his community in southern Lábrea in the state of Amazonas, was told by other residents that illegal loggers - whose action she complains for years - had a party in celebration. According to them, there was barbecue to celebrate the ex-National Force. "Now they're telling anyone who will listen: 'we've put the national force to run, you bunch of slack" - said one resident.
Nilcilene was forced to flee their community on Saturday, 19 days, because the Department of Human Rights (SEDH) interrupted the escort provided by the program Protection of Human Rights Defenders, which is part of the community leader.
President of an association of small producers who suffer intimidation and expulsion of illegal loggers and land grabbers, Nilcilene received death threats for denouncing these gangs and was under protection since November 2011.
The violence was portrayed by the public in a series of articles published in March.
The bodyguard, whose duration is temporary, with Nilcilene remained for six months.In May, Amnesty International launched a lawsuit asking for immediate action to the Ministry of Justice and the government of Amazonas. Since this campaign was launched, members of Amnesty send letters asking for concrete actions, such as the creation of a permanent police unit in southern Lábrea and investigation of complaints made by Nilcilene.
The withdrawal of the National Force in southern Lábrea occurs in the midst of this campaign, which runs until June 5. Asked by this reporter, a spokesperson for the SEDH replied that "one of the measures undertaken by the program is the temporary removal of the defender's place of work, always agreed with people in the program and as specifics of each case."
Forced to leaveAccording Nilcilene, however, the output was not agreed. "Lieutenant [Commander of the operation] said that the order had come from Brasilia and was to leave as soon as possible. I could not make my move, or have left to go see my lot in my crop, "says the plantation laborer who lost thousands of feet of banana, palm, peach palm, corn and pineapple.
The department paid the airfare Nilcilene, the assessment is that the leader would be killed if he remained in place without escort.
"Recession is a message of impunity and lawlessness of victory," said Neide Lawrence, coordinator of the Pastoral Land Commission of the Amazon. "People who denounce deforestation are expelled and the criminals have all the freedom to continue extracting resources from the forest?"
Thanks to complaints and Nilcilene Adelino Ramos, another community leader in southern Lábrea, assassinated in 2011, an investigation was initiated with 23 names of land grabbers, loggers and gunmen in the region. But investigaçãoestá stop at the station in the city.
Since 2007, seven people were killed in southern Lábrea, where 800 families live today. The last crime was against working Dinhana Nink, 27, murdered in front of his son six years on March 30. She was close to leading Nilcilene.
Over the six months remaining in the region, the National Strength only Nilcilene protected. In addition to not be intimidated by the presence of police, the gunmen eventually began to make threats against the team. In late April, the National Strength received a denounces ambush plan to kill the leader and the police.
ProtestsOn May 12, a march was held in Rio de Janeiro to charge the investigation of death linked to conflicts with loggers. The protesters set the name of 127 people killed on crosses, which were symbolically buried in the sand of Copacabana.
Organised by Forestry Committee Fluminense, the march drew attention to the relationship between violence against ambientas leaders and the new Forest Code which, if approved, may grant amnesty to illegal loggers.
Tomorrow, May 24, will act in a settlement Agroextrativista piranheiras Beach High, New Ipixuna (Para) to remind one year of the murder of the couple extractive José Claudio and Maria of the Holy Spirit. The two were killed near this community, where they lived after suffering followed by death threats for denouncing illegal logging of chestnut trees.
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