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 On October 27 the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), an agency of the Organization of the American States (OAS) held a hearing in Washington, D.C., about the Ubá Farm Case, when rural worker's had their houses burned and were brutally shot down by gunmen.
Investigations began in 1985, the year the killings occurred, but the legal proceedings were compromised by improprieties and irregularities, that allowed those responsible to go unpunished.
Human rights agencies consider that type of impunity a pattern of human rights violations in crimes committed against rural workers in southern Pará, a state in northern Brazil, and all over the country.
In the case in question, two of the killers fled and the person who ordered the crime remains out on bail in the trial that has already lasted 23 years.
The case of the Ubá Farm was taken up by the IACHR in 1999 by the Center for Justice and International Law and the Pará Association for the Defense of Human Rights, which participated in the agency's hearing last month.
The agencies requested that the Commission find the country of Brazil at fault for violations of the rights of the both the Uba Farm murder victims and their families.
Between 1988 and 1987, seven massacres were reported in this region of Pará state, which left 62 deaths according to data of the Pará Society for Human Rights. From all these cases, however, only two were brought to justice. The other five were simply ignored.
In the other case besides Ubá, the one known as the Fazenda Princesa (Princess Farm) case, five peasants were killed with some of them being decapitated and having their bodies thrown in the river. Both lawsuits are stalled for 21 years.
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KILLING IN BRAZIL GETS TOTAL IMPUNITY MOST OF THE TIME, WITH THE BLESSINGS IF YOUR VARIOUS COURTS ON (IN)JUSTICE
INCLUDING YOUR SUPREME COURT OF (IN)JUSTICE.
Once more, I wish someone could prove me wrong !
And exactly the same for Sister Dorothy killers. FREE !!!!!!
Brazil is not any better than BANANA REPUBLICS !
Brazil is a tragedy, a shameful country !!!!
And even more shameful, when they are so proud of being Brazilian !
Cheaters, liars, hiders and scammers can only Cheat, lie, hide and scam.
And on top, corrupted to the roots, rusted in their genes and soul that are transferred from generation to generation !
Never ever trust a Brazilian, should remain the rules of all trading partners.
If I was a President, I would ban all trading with Brazil, similar to the Cuba embargo from the USA !!!!
Or I would intervene, invade the country...and do some serious cleaning !
Brazilians should be red faced and shameful when they sing their national anthem, but they dont.
They are quite sure that what they do is normal and they do it with pride ! Therefore they keep their dignity regardless of how many killings stayed
UNPUNISHED.
A way of life, a lifestyle...of losers !
And if you believe you will succeed that way, you simply get it all wrong as usual !