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Weekly Report - 4 April 2013 (WR-13-13)
BRAZIL: Trial brings spotlight back on rural killings
The trial now under way of three men accused of murdering two rural activists in Pará has become a reminder to the fact that violence in rural areas has been increasing, and that the reaction of the government and the judiciary is painfully slow and, according to human rights campaigners, inadequate, bordering on indifference. The murders in question took place in May 2011.
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