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35/ Excerpt from the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo of 21 April 1995
(fascicle No. 2) communicated to the Special Rapporteur by the Israelite
Federation of the State of São Paulo.
36/ Pele made this statement on Saturday, 18 November when receiving a
delegation from the Movimento Negro Unificado on the occasion of the
celebration of the "300 years of immortality" of Zumbi do Palmares, the Black
hero who resisted the invasion of Quilombo do Palmares which was destroyed in
1695 by the Portuguese (see note 12). See the article entitled "Pele’s new
goal to be President", Sunday Telegraph, 19 November 1995.