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·10/5/2008 - Acquittal appealed in nun's slaying, Miami Herald
·8/5/2008 - Acquitted Brazilian rancher says he admired US nun, Associated Press
·6/5/2008 - Brazil: Amazon rancher acquitted in nun killing, Associated Press
·6/5/2008 - Brazil jury absolves rancher in murder of U.S. nun, Reuters
·26/4/2008 - Whistleblowing farmer killed in Brazil, Associated Press
·18/2/2008 - Brazil: Managed forestry offers hope of saving Amazon, Reuters
·4/1/2008 - Jungle tribal leader Kelesau Naan took on the loggers. It may have cost him his life, Times (UK)
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- 1. Dorothy Stang fought for social equity in the Amazon Rank: 74%
- SHARE: | | Amazon nun's brother speaks about her murder: Dorothy Stang fought for social equity in the Amazon David Stang June 7, 2007 Dorothy Stang, 1931 - 2005 Editor's note: Dorothy Stang, an American nun who spent more than 30 years fighting for land rights for poor settlers in the Amazon, was murdered by a contract killer in February 2005 in the Brazilian state of Para. Stang, 73, was shot six times with a revolver as she read from the Bible. Stang's confessed killer said he was hired by...
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- 2. Brazil: Dorothy Stang murder suspect in custody again | Forest... Rank: 73%
- Forest Policy Research Search... Home About Activists Enviros Forestry Welcome Sources Plans Subscribe Brazil: Dorothy Stang murder suspect in custody again Brazilian police have arrested a rancher suspected of involvement murder of rainforest activist Dorothy Stang. Regivaldo Galvão has been held for allegedly illegally acquiring titles to the land the US nun died trying to defend. The detention of Galvão, at his home in the Amazon state of Para, could lead to the reopening of the Stang case....
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- 3. Brazil: Dorothy Stang murder suspect in custody again | Forest... Rank: 73%
- Forest Policy Research Search... Home About Activists Enviros Forestry Welcome Sources Plans Subscribe Brazil: Dorothy Stang murder suspect in custody again Brazilian police have arrested a rancher suspected of involvement murder of rainforest activist Dorothy Stang. Regivaldo Galvão has been held for allegedly illegally acquiring titles to the land the US nun died trying to defend. The detention of Galvão, at his home in the Amazon state of Para, could lead to the reopening of the Stang case....
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- 4. Nun assassinated defending Amazon | Greenpeace International Rank: 72%
- Pages above: Home > Greenpeace News Nun assassinated defending Amazon Greenpeace: the state government of Para has failed to protect her 13 February 2005 Print Send to a friend Anapu, Para State, Brazil - 74 year old American missionary Sister Dorothy Stang was assassinated on Saturday in the Amazon state of Para, Brazil. Sister Dorothy was travelling to a sustainable development project in Anapu with some colleagues when she was shot three times by two gunmen. This tragedy occurred 16 years...
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- 5. U.S. Nun's Death Embodies Amazon Battle Rank: 72%
- Embodies Amazon Battle A crude cross of tree branches marks the spot where American nun Dorothy Stang died on a red mud road cutting through dense green jungle. It also marks ground zero of a battle over how the Amazon, the world's largest remaining tropical wilderness, will be developed _ or destroyed. Stang, 73, a spunky, softly spoken nun from Dayton, Ohio, was shot dead on Feb. 12 in a dispute with an influential rancher in the eastern Amazon state of Para, on the frontier of forest and...
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- 6. They Killed Sister Dorothy Rank: 72%
- On February 12th, 2005, Sister Dorothy Stang, a Catholic nun from Dayton, Ohio, was shot six times and left to die on a muddy road in the Brazilian Amazon. Who was this woman? Why was she killed? And what will be done about it? The answers may hold the fate of the rainforest itself. They Killed Sister Dorothy is a ground-breaking documentary feature and a true courtroom drama that follows the trial of Dorothy's killers and examines her life's work in the rainforest of Brazil. ** Flash Player 9...
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- 7. Brazilian farmer pleads guilty in killing of U.S. nun in Amazon... Rank: 72%
- pleads guilty in killing of U.S. nun in Amazon, says ranchers ordered it An Amazon farmer charged in the killing of American nun and rainforest defender Dorothy Stang pleaded guilty Wednesday and said two ranchers ordered her murder because of her opposition to their plan to log a patch of forest. Amair Feijoli da Cunha, 38, told a jury he offered money to two gunmen to shoot the 73-year-old nun on Feb. 12, 2005, at the behest of ranchers Vitalmiro Moura and Regivaldo Galvao. Feijoli testified...
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