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World Service,13 Nov 1991,27 mins

The Expulsion of Peasant Farmers

The Amazon Watershed

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George Monbiot is beaten up by military police as he investigates the brutal expulsion of peasant farmers from their homes into the lands of the indigenous Yanomamis. This is a programme from the BBC World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 1991.

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