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IAPL | 15 – 12 – 2009 | The International Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL) strongly condemns the barbarian killings of the coordinators of the Brazil’s League of Poor Peasants (LCP), Élcio Machado, called Sabiá, and Gilson Gonçalves, on last December 7th, in the region of Buritis, state of Rondonia, north-western Brazil. At around 2 o’clock PM, Élcio and Gilson ...

BRAZİL | 13 – 12 – 2009 | On December 9, at 2 o’clock pm, two coordinators of the Poor Peasants League of Rondônia, northern Brazil (LCP / RO) were kidnapped by paramilitaries in the service of landowners, on the road linking the peasant camp called Rio Alto and the city Buritis, in the state of Rondônia. The coordinators Elcio ...