BBC NEWS | Americas | Rancher denies US nun's killing

re: "...Sister Dorothy campaigned for poor farmers' rights and to preserve the rainforest from loggers and developers. /Her murder followed a dispute with ranchers over land they wanted to clear for pasture and she wanted to protect...[snip]...In the last 30 years, more than 1,000 people have been killed in land disputes in Brazil, the BBC's Brazil correspondent Gary Duffy says - more than 770 of those in the state of Para."