Brasil, natives threatened and killed again.

cipo — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:18:15 GMT

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Members of several ethnic groups attend on the Rap... Members of several ethnic groups attend on the Raposa Serra do Sol reserve at Brazil's Supreme Court in Brasilia, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. The dispute over the 4.2 million-acre Raposa Serra do Sol reservation pits about 18,000 Amazon Indians against a handful of large-scale rice farmers who have violently resisted efforts to remove them. Brazil's Top Court began hearing arguments Wednesday on whether to break the reserve up. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
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Brazil's Supreme Court Judge Carlos Ayres Britto (... Brazil's Supreme Court Judge Carlos Ayres Britto (L) presents his report on the Raposa Serra do Sol indigenous reservation in the Supreme Court in Brasilia on August 27, 2008. The country's supreme court will hand down a judgement on whether to keep the boundaries set by the government for the Raposa do Sol resrevation, an Amazon forest territory half the size of Belgium that abuts Venezuela and Guyana, which is home to 18,000 natives from the Macuxi, Wapichana, Taurepang, Ingarico and Patamona tribes. The decision is important because it will also lay down a legal precedent for 144 other indigenous land claims in Brazil.
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