TRADITIONAL COMMUNITIES VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE: ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND SILENCING.
Legal Amazon, Rondônia, Traditional Communities.
The objective of this research is to analyze and reflect on the process of silencing communities through violence in the countryside and (in) access to justice. Considering the context of violence in the countryside experienced and evidenced throughout the territory of the State of Rondonia, we sought to understand how this process of violence in these communities unfolds or should unfold, how these leaders seek support from the “state”, how they access or access justice to resolve their processes of violence and conflicts. Thus, interviews were conducted with five (5) community leaders in the State of Rondonia, in addition to observations and bibliographic research. All interviews were conducted during the year 2023, online, through the platform (Google Meet). During the interviews, the leaders discussed the conflicts that occurred between 1999, 2012, 2021, and 2022. The results presented show that these small communities are still at the mercy of their own fate when it comes to access to justice. Some did not even know the meaning of the term access to justice, or do not know the mechanisms to access what they understand as justice. The process of silencing can be seen in the invisibility of their processes of struggle for survival, certain that many of their “problems” are fueled by experiences of extreme violence and are unknown or made invisible by the lack of state action. As a final product, I propose that a course be designed and taught with the objective of promoting/developing training/education in Human Rights, Conflict Mediation, and Awareness Raising for a group of previously selected military police officers who will work on the front lines in incidents involving conflicts in the field.