Brazilian guilty of US nun murder

POSTED BY: Geezer
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 02:50
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Maybe some folk are finally getting it. Too bad it takes something like a murder to wake them up.

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A Brazilian rancher has been found guilty of killing US-born nun and environmental activist Dorothy Stang.
A court in the city of Belem sentenced Vitalmiro Bastos Moura, 36, to 30 years for paying gunmen to shoot the 73-year-old missionary dead in 2005.

Sister Dorothy campaigned for poor farmers' rights and to preserve the rainforest from loggers and developers.

Her murder followed a dispute with ranchers over land they wanted to clear for pasture and she wanted to protect.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6659959.stm



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