A Brazilian congressional panel investigating the murder of a revered American nun has found evidence that a broader conspiracy between loggers, ranchers and officials is behind a wave of violence against peasant farmers and environmental activists in the Amazon state of Para.
A senate panel concluded that four people arrested for the murder of Sister Dorothy Stang are merely the most visible elements in an intricate chain of interests whose use of violence has given them almost unbridled power in a notoriously lawless region.
Stang, who was born in Ohio, was a naturalised Brazilian who had spent the past 23 years protecting the rainforest and promoting sustainable development projects among peasant farmers as an alternative to the predatory exploitation of natural resources.
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