The French Dominican priest Henri Burin de Roziers has become some Brazilian landowners’ target, because of his commitment in favour of the "sem terra", farmers who have no plots of land, that he defends as a member of the Commission for the Pastoral of the Land, a body of the Brazilian Bishops Conference. This was reported by Cafod, an English NGO that for many years has supported the priest in his work for justice. Father de Roziers has been in Brazil since 1977, and in 2005 he won the international Human Rights Award "Ludovic Trariex", which had been given before to the South-African leader Nelson Mandela as well. According to Cafod, the Brazilian police of the Xinguara province have received intelligence that three killers have been "hired" by some big landowners to dispose of the troublesome transalpine priest with a reward of 50 thousand real, equal to 19 thousand euros. The Dominican priest, born in 1930 and ordained priest in 1964 (the same year he became a lawyer), has received these threats in the same Brazilian state Parà where in 2005 the American nun, sister Dorothy Stang, also working in the defence of human rights, was murdered.
