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To: TobagoJack who wrote (59880)	4/29/2006 7:54:42 PM
From: shades	Respond to of 110194

Farmer pleads guilty in slaying of nun, 73 sun-sentinel.com (well said Dear General - sillyness can cost you your life in many places - even el mats homeland) Ranchers ordered her killing over the clearing of rainforest, he says. By Michael Astor The Associated Press Posted April 27 2006 BELEM, Brazil · An Amazon farmer charged in the killing of a nun and rainforest defender, Dorothy Stang, pleaded guilty Wednesday and said two ranchers ordered her slaying because of her opposition to their plan to log a patch of forest. Amair Feijoli da Cunha, 38, told a jury he offered money to two gunmen to shoot the 73-year-old nun on Feb. 12, 2005, at the behest of ranchers Vitalmiro Moura and Regivaldo Galvao. Feijoli testified that Galvao told him, "Until we put an end to this woman, we won't have peace on these lands." He said Galvao told him to offer $24,000 to kill Stang. Feijoli said Moura supplied the .38-caliber revolver used. The two ranchers have been charged with Stang's killing, but legal maneuvering has kept their cases from trial. Stang, a naturalized Brazilian from Ohio, spent the last 23 years of her life in the remote jungle town of Anapu, 1,250 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, where she defended the rainforest and poor settlers. Stang was shot on a stretch of road deep in the Amazon after a long-running dispute with ranchers over a patch of forest they wanted to log and then convert into pasture land. She wanted to have the land declared as a sustainable development reserve. Para state prosecutor Lauro Freitas said he would ask for the maximum penalty of 30 years in prison for Feijoli. Lawyers for the Stang family said it also was important to convict the men accused of ordering the killing, something that rarely happens in Para state, where ranchers and loggers are closely linked to politicians and the police. "Up until now, the history of this region is one of impunity, where the wealthy have their way," said lawyer Brent Rushforth, who flew from Washington, D.C., to attend the trial with three of Stang's siblings. Members of Stang's family said they were pleased with the proceedings so far. Outside the courthouse, poor settlers, who traveled for days by bus over dirt roads, camped under tents. Some held banners with slogans saying, "Sister Dorothy your blood has cleansed the Earth." According to the Catholic Church's Land Pastoral, more than 500 land-related killings have occurred in the past 20 years, but only 10 cases went to trial.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (59880)	4/29/2006 7:58:37 PM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Nigeria Militants Warn Chinese Govt, Oil Cos: Stay Away (haha - yellow man and white man can unify together in peace and harmony to put down black man now eh?) LAGOS (Dow Jones)--Niger Delta militants fighting for control of oil resources Saturday warned the Chinese government and oil companies to stay away from the Niger Delta region. "We wish to warn the Chinese government and its oil companies to steer well clear of the Niger Delta. Chinese citizens found in oil installations will be treated as thieves," the militants said in an e-mail sent to Dow Jones Newswires. (MORE TO FOLLOW) Dow Jones Newswires April 29, 2006 17:32 ET (21:32 GMT) Copyright (c) 2006 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.- - 05 32 PM EDT 04-29-06 Nigeria Militants Warn Chinese Govt,Oil Cos: Stay Away -2 . The warning came two days after Chinese President Hu Jintao ended a state visit to Nigeria, during which the two countries signed a number of bilateral agreements, including those on oil and gas. The bilateral agreements reaffirmed the grant by Nigeria of four oil blocks to China - two located in the Niger Delta and two in the Chad Basin. But the militants warned by investing in the oil industry, the Chinese government would be aiding the Nigerian government, which it accuses of "stealing" the resources belonging to the people of the Niger Delta. "The Chinese government by investing in stolen crude places its citizens in our line of fire," the militants warned in the e-mail, signed by Jomo Gbomo, a leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta. In the e-mail, the militants cited a bomb attack allegedly carried out by them Saturday on some tankers taking gasoline from the Warri Refinery. They said the car bomb was activated by cellular phone utilizing 30 kilograms of dynamite. There were no reports of casualties yet. The attack came about a week after a similar one at a military base in Port Harcourt, also in the Niger Delta, in which three people reportedly died. "We have resolved to take our campaign out of the creeks that every Nigerian may feel the true pains of the Niger Delta peoples," the militants said in their statement. Attacks by the militants have cut about a fifth of Nigeria's crude production, following shut-ins by companies in the areas affected by the attacks. Militants have kidnapped and later released foreign oil workers, and blown up oil installations, including flowstations and oil and gas pipelines. The militants have warned oil companies operating in the Niger Delta to leave or risk being attacked. "For the errant oil companies that still choose to remain and operate in our lands and waters, we shall come like a thief in the night," the militants warned in an e-mail last week. -By Vincent Nwanma, Dow Jones Newswires; +234-1-585-0849; vinwanma@beta.linkserve.com (END) Dow Jones Newswires April 29, 2006 19:30 ET (23:30 GMT) Copyright (c) 2006 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.- - 07 30 PM EDT 04-29-06