AMERICA/BRAZIL - Report of the Pastoral Land Commission: 2020 year of terror due to registered conflicts
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Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), an organization linked to the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), presented the 35th edition of the report that contains information on conflicts in the Brazilian countryside for the year 2020. At the launch, the CPT paid tribute to Dom Andre de Witte, Bishop who presided over the CPT in the last administration, and died on April 25, 2021.
The Bishop of Itacoatiara and current President of the CPT, Mgr. José Ionilton Lisboa de Oliveira, stressed that since the beginning of the CPT, in 1975, the pastoral care has tried to record the violence in the countryside and highlighted the importance of the work of systematization done by the Dom Tomás Balduino Documentation Center, created in 1985, with the mission of recording violence and attacks on human rights in the countryside. The Bishop also spoke
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Turkish social media account posts US genocide history
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Ankara, May 1 : Turkish social media account Clash Report recently posted a summary of the genocide history of the US on its twitter account, which has triggered discussions among netizens.
In a timeline format, the summary posted on Wednesday listed out more than 20 events and descriptions about the genocide history, the Xinhua news agency reported.
In the US genocide against Native Americans, 70 million Native Americans were slaughtered in their own land, it said.
It also included the Vietnam War, the coup in Iran in 1953, and the Iraq War. In the Vietnam War, for example, the US massacred 3 million Vietnamese civilians by using Agent Orange, a powerful herbicide, it said.