BRAZIL: ATROCITY CRIMES IN THE AMAZON

Evidence Platform supporting Communication submitted to the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the ICC

In the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, mass atrocity crimes have been associated with the dispossession of land, the exploitation of natural resources, and the destruction of its environment, while enabling and entrenching the widespread dispossession of Rural Land Users.

INTERPRT created an Evidence Platform to support an Article 15 Communication submitted to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court by Climate Counsel, Greenpeace Brazil, Observatório do Clima, and Greenpeace International. The Communication was filed on behalf of Rural Land Users and Defenders who are victims of the alleged crimes against humanity. 

This platform supports the ICC communication, by bringing together disparate forms of evidence, photographs, testimonies from survivors and family members of victims, 3D reconstruction of crime scenes, forensic evidence, visualizations of data collected by Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT) between 2011 and 2021, drone videos, satellite imagery analysis, deforestation and forest fire data on the Amazon. Together they demonstrate crimes against thousands of rural land users and defenders in Brazil have intensified under President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration.