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...area around the town of Redencao is a particularly bloody battlefield. It is the home to powerful cattle barons who are in constant conflict with reform activists. In 2005, an American nun, Dorothy Stang, who supported land reform, was murdered. Last Thursday, as a local court postponed the third trial of a man accused of killing her, unknown gunmen shot dead Pedro Alcantara de Souza, another activist for land reform in Redencao. Police believe Souza was targeted because he works for the Federation of Family Farmers, a group that defends the rights of small producers and landowners in southern Para...
...highest profile victims of the conflicts. Two hit men were jailed for her murder and a powerful rancher who believed her activism was instrumental in his losing a parcel of land to small farmers, was found guilty of ordering her killing. However, he was cleared at a second trial and the third due to start this week was put back until April...
However, the film clearly had aspirations beyond the financial. Released just as the war was ending, it also functioned as a piece of propaganda: “None Shall Escape” opens and closes with the presiding judge of a war crimes trial directly addressing the audience, asking that justice be done in light of the trial...
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...rejections and failed passes. Blair was initially rebuffed by his then special friend President Bill Clinton when he pressed the White House to commit ground troops to Kosovo in 1999. In 2003 the U.K. agreed to extradition terms that made it easier to extradite a Briton to stand trial in America than a U.S. citizen to face the British courts. Two years ago, evidence surfaced contradicting U.S. denials that a U.S. air base on the British dependency of Diego Garcia had been used for extraordinary renditions of terrorism suspects in 2002. "We share the disappointment that everybody has about what...