By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter
BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL - The number of people murdered in Brazil over land and environmental disputes rose by more than ten percent in 2012, to a total of 32 deaths, according to a land rights watchdog. Rio de Janeiro state saw a sharp rise in killings, from an average of one per year to four in 2012.
According to the statistics, released Monday by the Pastoral Land Commission, a Catholic organization known by its Portuguese initials CPT, rural activists, indigenous leaders and landless peasants were murdered at an average rate of one every eleven days . . .
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