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Thursday, October 14, 2004, 08:02

Brazil teen arrested in anthropologist's killing

CNN

Police arrested a 17-year-old boy Wednesday and charged him with killing a prominent anthropologist last week in an Amazon state.

Meireles, who was the first anthropologist to contact the Cinta Larga Indians in the late 1960s, had been called out of retirement in April, after the tribe massacred 29 people illegally mining for diamonds on their reservation. Meireles was working with a federal task force to shut down the mining operations when he was killed.

Mining on the Roosevelt Indian reservation is believed to involve powerful economic interests. Brazil's Mines and Energy Ministry estimates some $2 billion worth of diamonds have been smuggled off the reservation over the past four years. >> continue


SEE ALSO:
Indian Specialist Shot Dead in Brazil (The Guardian)

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