The northern Brazilian state of Para is notorious for land-related
violence, contract killings, slave-like labor conditions and wanton
environmental destruction.
More than 1,200 activists, small farmers, judges, priests and others
have been killed over attempts to preserve the rain forest in the last
two decades, according to the Catholic Land Pastoral, a watchdog group
that tracks rural violence in Latin America's largest nation.
The killings are mostly carried out by gunmen hired by loggers,
ranchers and farmers to silence protests over illegal logging and land
rights. Yet killings over land are seldom punished.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/20/dorothy-stang-murder-brazil_n_3962991.html
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