Sunday, March 13, 2011

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Brazil: the process Veron

A Sao Paulo after the killing of eight years Kaiowá Marcos Veron, a leading exponent of the Guarani people, begins the trial of the accused Estevão Romero, Roberto Carlos dos Santos and Jorge Cristaldo Insabralde. The three men are accused of murder, arbitrary detention, procedural fraud and other minor crimes.
In 2003, a landowner who had usurped the ancestral lands of the Guarani people commissioned the murder of Veronica, who had led the reoccupation of the lands of his people, for this was kidnapped and beaten to death.

the Guarani people have stolen their land, without the local and national authorities did comply with the laws, in order to develop new plantations or estates where plant and grazing animals.

The Attorney General of Brazil said that being able to bring to justice those accused of murdering an Indian Guaraní is a historical fact because it is the first time this has happened, until Today the violence and abuses against the people Guarani (forced to live in reserves in case or shanty towns) had never been brought to court.

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