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May 30, 2022
Inspection Comes Only Two Weeks After the Attack in Anapu, in Pará (Portuguese)
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In Anapu, Brazil, people are being murdered for land.
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The attack happened in lot 96, in Anapu, southwest of Pará. Armed men set fire to farmers' houses, where about 54 families live.
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According to the residents, the men said they were carrying out a repossession suit. They have been suspended by the STF.
Because of the complaints, the judge of the agrarian court of Altamira, the Public Defender's Office, and the Federal Public Ministry went to plot 96 to hear the victims.
