Keith and our fellow members
The whole Nation Brazil , all TV , News paper and government
pay tribute to the Bold U.S. Catholic missionary Dorothy Stang for
her dedicated work for the small famer and her unexpected death
is the big price the nation need to pay to stop this brutal killing
by the Big one.Nobody has expected that she will be the victime
repeating again the same story of the Amazonian rain forest leader
Chique Mendes brutal death as she have been loved and protected by
several thousand people as she is the real guide and leader. Now
without her all these small farmer are in danger .Their life are
sacrified as they made the real war against those who are
destroying the the words vital lungs of the the biggest
Amazonian rainforest.
Very rare people like Stang 74 old woman and the world has
lost one who worked and dedicated life long strugle for the poor
and the small farmer But the lesson she taught and her life is
surely going make a turnig point in Brazilian politics to solve
the on goin long war between Big and small farmers .Let all pray on
behalf of her life long service and social work and look forward
for peace as Brazil has such a huge lands and very cheap too and
hence there is no need to do this brutal Killing.
sd
Pannir selvam
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Brasil
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BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian police are searching Amazon
jungle for suspected killers of a 74-year-old American nun gunned down
after defending peasant farmers in conflicts with loggers and
ranchers.
Two gunmen shot and killed U.S. Catholic missionary Dorothy Stang at a
settlement of landless peasants on Saturday, 30 miles (50 km) from the
town of Anapu in northern Brazil's Para.
Stang, a native of Dayton, Ohio, spent three decades backing small
farmers in Amazon land battles and faced death threats.
Police identified the gunmen and suspect a local rancher ordered the
killing, Human Rights Secretary Nilmario Miranda told Reuters by phone
from the Anapu region.
"Everything indicates this, the gunmen's links, the history of
(killing) contracts around here," said Miranda, adding that police did
not yet want to give the name of the suspect.
Hours after Stang was killed, a worker on a ranch adjacent to the
settlement was shot and killed in front of his wife and five children
by eight armed men, police said.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula dispatched federal police teams
to investigate the deaths, which have highlighted the land battles
raging in the Trans-Amazonian highway region, about 435 miles (700 km)
southwest of state capital Belem.
The settlement where Stang was killed is linked to a vast, state-run
sustainable development project. Loggers and ranchers are encroaching
on the area set aside for small farmers.
Stang, known as "the angel of the Trans-Amazonian" to supporters, and
"the terrorist" by ranchers who opposed her, encouraged small farmers
not to flee or sell.
Anapu ranchers accused her of supplying guns to peasant farmers.
Fellow missionaries in the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur order, which
has some 2,000 nuns spread across five continents, dismissed the
claims as "absurd and false".
Stang's death came nine days after she warned Miranda of death threats
to her and local farmers as he set up a program to defend human rights
workers in Para state.
"They did nothing to protect Dorothy," said Antonio Canuto, a leader
of the Pastoral Land Commission, the Catholic rights group she worked
for. "This government protects big farmers."
Lula promised to settle 400,000 landless families during his four-year
term to even out Brazil's wealth inequalities. He is way behind
target.
Para has Brazil's highest rate of deaths connected to land battles,
accounting for more than 40 percent of 1,237 murders between 1985 and
2001, according to environmental group Greenpeace.
Federal officials said they did not expect Stang to become a victim.
She was a public figure who was known nationally after winning awards
for human rights and environmental work.
Miranda said local landowners felt threatened by her as she gained
increasing government support for her work.
He said her death intensified the government's will to expropriate
illegally occupied land and turn it into landless settlements and
reserves.
"We're going to show creation of these reserves and agrarian reform is
irreversible," said Miranda.
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Pagandai V Pannirselvam
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN
Departamento de Engenharia Qu’mica - DEQ
Centro de Tecnologia - CT
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