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ANAPU (BRAZIL), FEB. 18. Brazil's President has ordered the creation of two massive new rain forest reserves, succumbing to intense pressure to protect a lawless Amazon region from violent loggers and ranchers after the killing last weekend of an American nun who fought to protect the jungle. The decrees signed on Thursday by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will form a reserve of 3.3 million hectares and a national park spanning 445,300 hectares in the State of Para, where 73-year-old Dorothy Stang was shot to death in a dispute with a powerful rancher. ``We can't give in to people committing acts of violence,'' said the Environment Minister, Marina Silva, who announced the decrees in Brasilia, the capital. ``The Government is putting the brakes on in front of the predators.'' The decrees came after more than 60 environmental and human rights groups signed a letter to Mr. Silva demanding strong action to curb ``violence and impunity associated to the illegal occupation of lands and deforestation'' in the Amazon — especially in Para. Unless the killing stops, Brazil's first elected Leftist President ``will risk making history as the champion of rural violence, illegal occupation of public lands and illegal logging,'' said the letter. Stang, a naturalised Brazilian originally from Dayton, U.S., was attacked on Saturday in a settlement in Para. A witness said she read from the Bible after being confronted by two gunmen and was shot six times. — AP
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