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Brazil: Indigenous Leader Assassinated by 40 Masked Gunmen

HeadlineNov 21, 2011

In Brazil, an indigenous leader in southern Brazil was assassinated on Friday by 40 masked gunmen. The 59-year-old Nisio Gomes was killed just weeks after his tribe returned to their ancestral land after being evicted by cattle ranchers. Brazil’s human rights secretary condemned the murder as “part of systematic violence against indigenous people in the region.”

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