2008年12月22日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Brazil

Amazon killings go on despite Chico Mendes' legacy (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2008 11:12 AM CST

In this Feb. 1988 file photo is seen Francisco 'Chico' Mendes, an internationally acclaimed ecologist and advocate of the preservation of the Amazon Jungle in an unknown location in Brazil. Mendes was shot and killed at his home in the remote Amazon jungle twenty years ago on Dec. 22, 1988. More than 1,100 activists, small farmers, judges, priests and other rural workers have been killed in disputes since Mendes' murder, according to the Catholic Land Pastoral, a watchdog group known as CPT. (AP Photo)AP - The shotgun blast that tore through the chest of Chico Mendes made the Brazilian rubber tapper an environmental icon and his fight to save the Amazon a global crusade.

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