Latin America – Justice upholds conviction of one of the people who ordered the death of Vicente Cañas, Kiwxi
The jury's request for nullity was rejected by panel 4 of the TRF1 and confirmed the sentence that found guilty one of the murderers of the Jesuit missionary Vicente Cañas.
Last Tuesday (28) the request for nullity of the Jury Court that convicted Ronaldo Antonio Osmar, one of the masterminds of the murder of the Jesuit missionary Vicente Cañas, was judged. The 4th chamber of the Regional Federal Court (TRF) of the 1st Region unanimously rejected the jury's request for nullity and decided to uphold the sentence that found the former delegate of the Civil Police of Juína, in Mato Grosso, guilty of mediating in the ambush that killed Kiwxi in April 1987.
The decision confirms the jury trial held between 29 and 30 November 2017, the second court to assess Ronaldo Osmar's involvement in the murder of Vicente Cañas. The first jury was held in 2006, almost 20 years after the murder of the missionary, whose decision acquitted the former delegate. The 4th class of TRF1 unanimously rejected the request for jury nullification.
Vicente Cañas - the Kiwxi, as the Enawenê-Nawê called him - was brutally murdered in his hut while he was quarantined to return to the territory of the people he lived and worked with as an indigenist for more than ten years. Kiwxi was seen as a threat to farmers and loggers in the region who coveted the lands of the Enawenê-Nawê who were fighting for the demarcation of their territory.
Ronaldo Antônio Osmar, at the time, was a delegate of the Civil Police in Juína (MT) and mediated in the interests of the landowners, not only by omitting his duties, but also by gathering and leading the group that took the Jesuit's life. Kiwxi was seen as a threat to farmers and loggers in the region.
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Communication office Preferência Apostolica Amazôgica (PAAM)
Source: jesuitas.lat
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