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To: elmatador who wrote (65779)	8/3/2006 7:49:05 PM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Why are brazilians such pushovers? (You talk about property rights and natural size - why are things so fugged up back at your home? remove the plank from your own eye brother before you come for the splinter in mine - hehe why don't these peasants get together and do a zorro or rambo - why so whimpy?) Thousands Of Peasants Facing Eviction In Northern Brazil SAO PAULO (AP)--Authorities are evicting thousands of rural workers from 20 ranches they invaded in northern Brazil following a court order obtained by land owners, officials said on Thursday. The Para state government said the evictions have been taking place since last week but no incidents have been reported, spokeswoman Simone Romero told The Associated Press. "The government is just obeying a court order, there have been no reports of conflicts with those being evicted so far," Romero said, adding that negotiations have convinced the peasants to peacefully leave the properties. But Amnesty International said the evictions could lead to violence given the region's recent history of land conflicts. Amnesty said Thursday a total of about 4,000 families - nearly 15,000 people - are being affected by the court order. The majority of the families had been living on the land for more than three years. They have built houses, cultivated crops and raised small animals, Amnesty said. Schools have been established on all ranches. The ranches were invaded by the peasants and members of the powerful Landless Rural Workers Movement, MST. Many of the properties had previously been deemed "unproductive" by Incra, Brazil's land reform agency. Amnesty said it has documented high levels of land-related violence and police violence in Para state, including the Eldorado dos Carajas massacre in 1996, when 19 land activists were killed. U.S. missionary Dorothy Stang, who spent 20 years in the state trying to protect the rain forest and peasants from loggers and ranchers, was killed Feb. 12, 2005, in a dispute over land. Brazil has one of the world's most uneven distributions of land, with 3.5% of landowners holding 56% of the arable land. The poorest 40% own a scant 1%. The MST has asked Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to accelerate his efforts to redistribute land to the poor. (END) Dow Jones Newswires August 03, 2006 17:20 ET (21:20 GMT)