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Manaus, Brazil, March 11, 2008—An indigenous woman protects her child as policemen try to force her and 200 others from a privately owned tract of land in the heart of the Amazon.

Members of the Landless Workers Movement—mostly indigenous Brazilians—tried to resist the eviction with bows and arrows, but police eventually forced them out with tear gas and trained dogs, the Reuters news agency reported.

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