Report shows that deaths in land dispute conflicts rose by 75% in 2021

The Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) launched the 36th edition of its annual report, which gathers data on conflicts and violence suffered by rural workers in Brazil. The survey “Conflicts in Rural Brazil 2021” registered 1,768 conflicts, of which 1,242 were land disputes, 304 water and labor disputes, and 169 labor disputes.

Despite the 14% drop in total occurrences compared to 2020 (2,054, the highest rate since 2011), there was a 75% increase in murders (from 20 to 35), 80% (28) occurred in the Legal Amazon region. Most of the victims were indigenous people (10). The organization also highlights the occurrence of two massacres: the massacre that killed at least three Moxihatëtëa indigenous people in the Yanomami Indigenous Land (RR), and the murder of three landless people in the Ademar Ferreira Camp (RO).

In three years of the Bolsonaro government, the CPT registered 5,725 conflicts in the countryside, the highest number since 1985, the first year of publication.