Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Brazilian Police, Squatters Clash Over Eviction

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Protesters in the Brazilian city of Campinas set up barricades of wood and tires Tuesday as they battled military police trying to evict hundreds of people from squatter settlements where they had been living since July, local media reported. Video images posted online showed fires burning in the southern city of 1.1 million people as government officials moved into the area to remove squatters. Informal settlements set up by Brazilians who say they have nowhere else to live are not...

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