The story shocked her compatriotas when it was reported all over Brazilian newspapers last week: Paula Oliveira, pregnant with twins, had been viciously attacked by Skinheads outside a local train station in Zurich and was sadistically carved all over her abdomen and legs with the initials of the far-right Swiss People’s Party. The assault caused her to miscarry her babies. "What they did to my daughter is like a horror movie," her outraged father quipped to national and international newspapers.

The Marxist FARC guerrillas recently admitted that they were behind the massacre of 8 Indians in the Southwest region of Colombia. Government officials and Human rights organizations had accused the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia of killing 27 Awa Indians, but details hadn't emerged and members of the Awa community had admitted it was difficult to identify the attackers since the murders occurred at night.