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Article

12 Jan 2007

Author:
Amnesty International

Brazil: Another victim in the Guarani-Kaiowá’s struggle for land

…[A] 69-year-old Guarani-Kaiowá indigenous woman, has become the latest victim of land-related violence [in] the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Kuretê Lopes died when she was shot in the chest by a private security guard during an eviction from farm lands that the Guarani-Kaiowá claim as ancestral…There are fears that the men who killed Kuretê Lopes worked for the same private security company whose employees shot dead another member of the…community…in December 2005. Amnesty International is calling on the Federal authorities to thoroughly investigate the death of Kuretê Lopes…