Brazil’s president promises to catch Ohio nun’s killer (3 caught already)

Brazil’s president promises to catch Ohio nun’s killer
Tuesday, February 22, 2005 BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s president promised on Monday that federal authorities will capture the remaining suspects in the killing of an American nun who died trying to protect the Amazon rain forest and peasants living there.
Silva spoke a day after a second suspect was taken into custody in the killing of Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old native of Dayton, Ohio, shot Feb. 12 in the lawless Amazon state of Para where conflicts are common between peasants, loggers, land speculators and ranchers.

“It’s repulsive that people think the solution to a conflict is a .38-caliber revolver, as serious the situation might be,” Silva said on his weekly “Coffee with the President” radio show. “We’re not going to rest until we catch these murderers.”

The suspect taken into custody Sunday evening, Rayfran das Neves Sales, is believed to be one of the two gunmen who killed Stang with six shots in the Boa Esperanca settlement near the rural town of Anapu, about 870 miles north of Brasilia, according to Agencia Brasil, the country’s official news agency.
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He was captured Saturday and charged with conspiracy to murder Sunday after nearly three and a half hours of interrogation in Altamira, but denied involvement. Authorities are still searching for the rancher accused of ordering the killing and the second gunman.
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Two `nun killers' charged

HIRED TO KILL: The two suspected hitmen and the go-between who hired them have been charged with conspiracy to murder

AFP , BRASILIA AND ALTAMIRA
Tuesday, Feb 22, 2005,Page 7
A second suspect sought in the murder of a US-born nun who was an advocate for landless farmers was arrested late Sunday in the Brazilian state of Para, police said.Rayfran das Neves Sales was captured about 20km from the town of Anapu after local residents recognized him from a photograph posted by police, police superindendent Pedro Monteiro told reporters.
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The hit men earned US$19,000 dollars in cash for the murder, according to the daily O Estado de Sao Paulo.

The man accused of hiring two gunmen to kill Stang was charged Sunday with conspiracy to murder, authorities said.Amair Freijoli da Cunha, known as Tato, was charged after nearly three and a half hours of interrogation by Para state police in Altamira, police said.

Cunha turned himself in Saturday after arrest warrants were issued for him and three other suspects, the two purported gunmen and a rancher accused of ordering the killing of Stang.
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Also Sunday, witnesses told police that Cunha and Stang had an altercation a day before she was shot six times at the Boa Esperanca settlement near the rural town of Anapu, about 2,100km north of Rio de Janeiro.
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http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/02/22/2003224143

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Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Brazil arrests third suspect in murder of US-born nun



Brazilian peasants pray around the grave of US
nun Dorothy Stang. A third suspect sought in the
murder of Stang,who was an advocate for
landless farmers, has been arrested in Para state
(AFP)

A third suspect sought in the murder of a US-born nun who was an advocate for landless farmers has been arrested in Para state, a military spokesman said.

Wilquilano Pinto, Alias Eduardo, suspected of being one of the hitmen who shot 74-year-old Dorothy Stang, was arrested in Belo Monte, 75 kilometers (47 miles) west of Anapu, where the murder took place on February 12.

An army press attache said Pinto was taken by police to Altamira, 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Belo Monte, for questioning.
Pinto is the second suspected hitman in Stang's murder to have been apprehended. Rayfran das Neves Sales was nabbed late Sunday about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Anapu after local residents recognized him from a photograph posted by police.
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Stang was shot dead near an encampment for landless farmers. Brazilian authorities have suggested owners of illegal ranches, who are encroaching on the Amazon land, were behind the crime.
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http://www.turkishpress.com/w.asp?s=u&i=050222061644.rlu2o7lm



Leiter der parlamentarischen Untersuchungskommission Dr. JoaoAlfredo mit Sr. Dorothy Stang und Rosária von CPT-Belém

I don't speak German, but it appears this site has photos of the murdered lady's "work place" in Brazil:
http://w3.khg-heim.uni-linz.ac.at/pax/Anapu/fotos.htm



God bless this brave person. God damn the monsters who hired assassins to go to kill her, to get her out of the way of their profits.

This is the kind of heroine who could answer the Pope's question: "How to we bring new parishioners to church in the 21st century? How to we remain relevant to the people?"

We start by fighting the good fight, in the right places, as Jesus would have done.

I rarely admire people. This woman is a person I admire.

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Leader of the parliamentary Investigations Commission Dr. JoaoAlfredo with Sister Dorothy Stang and Rosária of CPT-Belém. (I don't know what CPT means, though)