The Santa Elmira massacre was a

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on activists of the

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Landless Workers' Movement Landless Workers' Movement ( pt, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, MST) is a social movement in Brazil, inspired by Marxism, generally regarded as one of the largest in Latin America with an estimated informal membership of 1.5 millio ...

(MST) in Rio Grande do Sul in 1989. In early 1989 a group of the MST that had been resettled in Salto do Jacuí occupied the Santa Elmira ranch. An order to dislodge them was issued, but the MST refused to leave the land. They were forcefully evicted from the land by military forces and small farming aircraft of the União Democrática Ruralista (that dropped

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bombs). 19 MST activists were killed by gunfire, 400 were injured and 22 were taken prisoner.Morrisawa, Mitsue. ''A História da Luta Pela Terra e o MST''. São Paulo: Editora Expressão Popular, 2008. p. 174

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