Luana Lourenço      Reporter Agência Brasil

Brasília – Civil Police officials in the state of Rondônia say they have identified a suspect in the murder of Adelino Ramos, aka Dinho, a land reform/ environment activist. The crime occurred in Vista Alegre do Abunã, an outlying area of the state capital, Porto Velho, on Friday, May 27.

According to the police, a land owner/farmer (“agricultor”), Ozeas Vicente, was the person who shot Dinho. Investigations continue as the police want to know if others were involved.

Dinho was shot six times as he walked down a street. He was the leader of an organization known as the Corumbiara Peasant Movement (“Movimento Camponês Corumbiara”) and was at the head of a campaign against illegal logging in the area in the western Amazon region where the borders of the states of Acre, Amazonas and Rondônia converge. He had received a number of death threats recently.

Allen Bennett – translator/editor The News in English

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