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| | Brazil: Corumbiara and Eldorado de Carajas: Rural violence, political brutality and impunity |
 | | The others, Elyomar Pereira da Silva, Domingos dos Reis da Conceição, Marcos Pereira da Silva, José da Natividade, Nilson Pereira de Souza and Michael Jackson Barbosa, all had surgery for fractures to their legs or feet. |
 | | José Marcondes da Silva, aged 49, and Ercílio Oliveira de Campos, aged 41, reportedly gave themselves up and lay on the ground in surrender. |
 | | Some 2,000 people, mostly gold prospectors and their families, had blocked a bridge over the Tocantins river for two days in protest against unsafe working conditions at the nearby open-cast gold mine of Serra Pelada where 27 people had died in mudslides in 1987. |
| www.amnestyusa.org /children/document.do?id=90D4714260170F6F802569000069307A (15003 words) |
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