Dying for a cause

Reproduced from Timesonline report on Kelesau Naan. I added the links.

— Sister Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old American nun, was shot dead in Brazil in 2005 while fighting to protect the Terra do Meio region from loggers. Within days, the area was declared a protected site

— Chico Mendes, a rubber tapper and environmental activist, became a posthumous icon in Brazil after he was murdered in 1988 by ranchers opposed to his campaign to protect the Amazon from deforestation

— Aldo Zamora was collecting data on illegal logging for Greenpeace in Great Water forest, Mexico, when a logging gang ambushed his car and killed him in May 2007

— Kinkri Devi went on hunger strike against a court’s refusal to hear her case against a mining project in Himchal Pradesh. She won her case and an award for her efforts. She died this week.