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Indigenous protest is violent; is settler repression peaceful? Ueslei Marcelino, Anthony Boadle, ‘Indigenous protest over land rights turns violent on front steps of Brazil Congress’, The Age, 26/04/17

26Apr17

Excerpt: Indigenous people and police have clashed in Brazil’s capital city, as officers fired rubber bullets and tear gas while tribe members shot arrows in return during a protest against planned government changes to reservation legislation.

The Tuesday demonstration was peaceful until police blocked some protesters, their bodies painted and carrying colourful headdresses, from climbing a ramp that leads into the congressional building.


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