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February 28, 2020

Costa Rican Indigenous Land Defender Yehry Rivera Murdered by Mob
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In Costa Rica, 45-year-old land defender Yehry Rivera of the Brörán
indigenous community was murdered Monday by an armed mob, after he
joined a campaign by indigenous families to reoccupy their ancestral
lands. It was the second murder of an indigenous land defender in the
past year. Under a law passed in 1977, Costa Rica's 24 legally
recognized indigenous groups are entitled to reclaim lands taken from
their ancestors, but the law has never been implemented.


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