What the records say
- When
- 17 Apr 1996
- Kind
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 6.10° S, 49.35° W
- Description
- killing of landless farmers by police in Brazil in 1996
Placed at the coordinates of its Polish Wikipedia article.
Eldorado do Carajás massacre
Killing of landless farmers by police in Brazil in 1996
The Eldorado do Carajás massacre was the mass killing of 21 landless farmers who were taking part in a peaceful protest. They were shot by military police on April 17, 1996, in the southern region of the Pará state, Brazil.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Nineteen landless farmers who were squatting at a private ranch are shot dead by military police”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page