Brazil landowner jailed for 115 years over landless deaths
Brazil landowner jailed for 115 years over landless deaths
12 October 2013 Last updated at 19:51 ET
A Brazilian landowner has been given a 115-year prison term for the killing of five landless farm workers in the south eastern state of Minas Gerais, in 2004.
Adriano Chafik Luedy, and his employee Washington Agostinho da Silva, who was sentenced to 97 years, were found guilty over the "Felisburgo massacre".
Eight other landless workers were injured in the incident in which 27 shelters and a school were burned down.
Workers from the landless movement were occupying an area claimed by Chafik.
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