Brazil slave inspectors shot dead

[Judi Lynn]

Last Updated: Thursday, 29 January, 2004, 11:47 GMT


Brazil slave inspectors shot dead

Three Brazilian officials were shot dead while investigating allegations that farm workers were used as slave labour, the Labour Ministry has said.
A spokesman said the officials and their driver were ambushed in the state of Minais Gerais.

But he said it was not clear whether the murders had anything to do with the investigations.

Last March President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva announced measures to end slave labour in Brazil.

This brutality will not go unpunished, all resources have been mobilised to catch the criminals

A police spokesman said the driver had managed to alert the authorities before he died.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3440615.stm

Hope Lula da Silva can get this evil wiped out before U.S. business (in case it hasn't already) get wind of it and flock to invest in an area with NO MINIMUM WAGE.