Edit: Mourning Ze Claudio: Brazil's Amazon Defender
Shite! His wife was killed, too .. missed that!
Known for his activism against logging in Brazil, Amazon forest defender Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife are found shot dead.
Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva was known simply as "Ze Claudio." His death and his wife's death are being investigated as a possible assassination.
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Anti-logging activist murdered in Amazon
Brazilian police say Jose Ribeiro was likely killed in retaliation for speaking out against illegal forest loggers.
Gabriel Elizondo Last Modified: 24 May 2011 21:20
Ribeiro’s killing has been compared to that of Dorothy Stang, who was also shot dead in Para after voicing opposition to loggers [Photo by Rodrigo Fonseca]
An Amazon environmental activist and his wife were killed late on Monday and the crime is being investigated as a possible assassination to silence the outspoken forest defender, according to police.
José Claudio Ribeiro da Silva, also known by his nickname of "Ze Claudio," was shot and killed along with his wife, Maria do Espírito Santo da Silva, in Nova Ipixuna, a rural town of 15,000 people in the northeast Brazilian Amazon state of Para, about 40km from the nearest city, Maraba. .. continued .. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/05/201152420380498450.html .......................... An online memorial for the slain activist:
Zé Claudio Ribeiro era campones e foi assassinado no proj d assentamento agroextrativ, nova ipixuna no sud do PA http://yfrog.com/h2ubapij JJAfroReggae .. 1 day 7 hours ago
The morning after the killing, Al Jazeera correspondent Gabriel Elizondo was the only journalist to cover the wake at Ze Cluadio's home in Maraba, Brazil. The following are his live tweets from the scene:
A day after Amazon defender and wife gunned down, anti forest #codigoflorestal approved by Brazilian congress. 410-63. #amazon #ZeClaudio elizondogabriel .. 1 day 5 hours ago
I am told there are so many people trying to view body of #zeclaudio in Maraba the street is blocked. Will be there in about 2 hrs w update elizondogabriel .. 16 hours 48 min ago
"The forest is crying" - hand painted sign on outside of #zeclaudios house. Body in coffin 15 feet away from sign. #zeclaudio #amazon elizondogabriel .. 12 hours 47 min ago
#body of #zeclaudio in one coffin, wife maria next to him in another. Easily 50 ppl here, steady stream coming to say goodbye to them. elizondogabriel .. 12 hours 41 min ago
Mood here at #zeclaudio and maria wake: shock and disbelief that they were actually killed. #brasil #brazil #amazon elizondogabriel .. 12 hours 37 min ago
Street in front of #zeclaudio house in maraba blocked to traffic for wake elizondogabriel .. 12 hours 24 min ago
"Injustice in the forest" - hand painted sign over #zeclaudio coffin. elizondogabriel .. 12 hours 27 min ago
"The fight will continue" - hand painted sign near body of #zeclaudio elizondogabriel .. 12 hours 19 min ago
They are expecting so many people at tomorrows funeral crews just arrived to set up a stage. At least 70 ppl here at house now. #zeclaudio elizondogabriel .. 12 hours 17 min ago
Not a lot of crying here. These are all people who have seen a lot; there is a mood here of quiet determination, resolve. #zeclaudio elizondogabriel .. 12 hours 8 min ago
I am told that despite pres rousseffs request, federal police (PF)won't be investigating due to jurisdiction issues. #zeclaudio elizondogabriel .. 12 hours 1 min ago
A friend of #zeclaudio just told me: "he always said a bullet could get him anyday. I never thought that day would actually arrive. Sad." elizondogabriel .. 12 hours 4 min ago
Number of other journalists here at house of #zeclaudio now: zero.
Brazilian police arrest suspects in Amazon murders of environmentalists
Two held over killings of José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and Maria do Espírito Santo, who were dedicated to saving the rainforests
Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro .. guardian.co.uk, Monday 19 September 2011 08.49 BST
José Rodrigues Moreira and his brother Lindon Johnson Silva Rocha are suspected in the murder of two environmental activists. Photograph: Paulo Santos/Reuters
Police in the Brazilian Amazon say they have arrested two men in connection with the murders of two rainforest activists who were gunned down in May.
José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria do Espírito Santo, were killed on 24 May, six months after Ribeiro da Silva had predicted during an international environmental conference that he could be killed at any time.
The activists were known for their vocal stance against illegal loggers, cattle ranchers and charcoal producers operating in Praia-Alta Piranheira, a remote Amazon settlement in Brazil's Para state, where they lived.
On Sunday, nearly four months after the killings, police said they had arrested two of their three prime suspects during a dawn raid on a jungle camp around 32 miles from the Amazon town of Novo Repartimento. Police said they had seized three revolvers and one shotgun during the raid.
"The family's reaction is happiness, happiness, happiness," Ribeiro da Silva's sister Claudelice Silva dos Santos told the Guardian on Monday, as the two suspects were reportedly transferred by helicopter to a prison in Belem, the state capital. "We have been waiting for this news for nearly four months."
Police named the prisoners as José Rodrigues Moreira, who is accused of ordering the killings, and his brother Lindon Johnson Silva Rocha, who allegedly carried out the executions.
"Hidden in a tent in the middle of the forest, the two brothers were armed and even tried to escape as they were being surrounded by police," security authorities said in a statement.
Alberto Lopes do Nascimento, the third man wanted for the assassinations, had not been arrested, family members said.
Ribeiro da Silva and Do Espírito Santo were often threatened with death threats because of their fight to protect the environment, and last November the former told a TEDx conference in Manaus that he expected to be killed. "I will protect the forest at all costs. That is why I could get a bullet in my head at any moment," he said.
Their murders, six months after Ribeiro da Silva's speech, triggered widespread outrage in Brazil and made headlines around the world. The country's president, Dilma Rousseff, ordered a police investigation into the killings and hundreds of paramilitary troops were deployed in the region.
Silva dos Santos, Ribeiro da Silva's youngest sister, described the arrests as the "second step" towards justice. "Now we want convictions," she said.
She said she hoped police investigations would continue, to establish whether the murders were part of a wider conspiracy. "We believe there are more people involved [in the murders]," she said
So that's GOOD news .. as for yesterday .. MUSIC time .. :)
I wondered about the trial .. Ah! .. more GOOD news .. they got the third guy ..
Brazil-UPDATE: Three persons accused of killing of human rights defenders José Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and Maria do Espírito Santo to face a trial by jury
Mr José Claudio Ribeiro da Silva(died May 24, 2011)
On 7 March 2012, the three persons accused of killing human rights defenders José Claudio da Silva and Maria do Espírito Santo on 24 May 2011 will face a trial by jury
On 7 March 2012 Judge Murilo Lemos Simão, from Marabá district in the state of Pará, ruled that the three persons accused of killing human rights defenders José Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and Maria do Espírito Santo on 24 May 2011 will face a trial by jury. Local landowner José Rodrigues Moreira, suspected of being the intellectual author of the crime, is among the accused.
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