BRAZIL: Indigenous people violently evicted

Wednesday, November 17, 1993 - 11:00

On January 20, the Tupinikim and Guarani indigenous communities were violently evicted from their land in Espirito Santo by 120 police using rubber bullets and armed with sub-machine guns and tear gas. Thirteen people were injured. The equipment used to destroy their homes was owned by Aracruz Cellulose, which took the land in the 1980s to use as a eucalyptus plantation. The communities reclaimed their land and were given assurances by the company that violence would not be used against them. Send a protest email to the Brazilian government at <http://www.foei.org/cyberaction/tupinikim.php>.

From Green Left Weekly, February 8, 2006.

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