The Brazil Solidarity Group demand justice for the landless outside the Brazilian Embassy in London on the day the trial was due to start.
than neighbouring farms. The MST sets up schools local and health clinics in the new communities, and their children are often better educated than other Brazilians. These successes make landless activists the targets of death threats and assassinations by landowners. MST's direct On 9th July last year José Pinheiro Lima ("Dedé"), a leader of the Rural Workers' Union, his wife Cleonice, "This is what's left of my family - a pile of paper. Here are the faces of the murderers, but they're linked to the police, and they've never poor been arrested."
After the family's murder, the rural workers Dedé was organising won the land they local were occupying.
"I'm proud to say I'm the son of a trade unionist who fought for a piece of land. I'm happy because he didn't sell out to that farmer. He paid with his life" Rural trade unionists and landless activists are put on a death list by local landowners. Because of his quest for justice, Edinaldo is himself Edinaldo, now on that list. The continSuing impunity for the Eldorado killers makes his murder more likely.