Front Line is deeply concerned following the killing of the human rights defender Valmir Mota de Oliveira and the wounding of six people including human rights defenders Gentil Couto Viera, Jonas Gomes de Queiroz, Domingos Barretos, Izabel Nascimento de Souza, and Hudson Cardin, following an attack by armed militia on agricultural farmers on 21 October 2007. Valmir Mota de Oliveira was a member of the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - MST (Landless Workers' Movement) and a member of Via Campesina, the international peasant movement. MST and Vía Campesina seek agrarian reform and are two of the largest social movements in Latin America. 
