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Killing the Messengers: Rising Violence Against Journalists and Indigenous Leaders Defending the Amazon

Jan 25, 2020

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fitzdon

In February 2005, the body of 73-year-old Sister Dorothy Stang was found on the side of a remote dirt road 33 miles from Anapu, Pará, in Brazil’s AmazonBasin. Seven bullets pierced her body. The first hit her in the abdomen, then after she fell face down, the killers fired bullets to the back and four…