Brazil Police Terror & Death Squads

[Del Jones]

Brazil Police Terror & Death Squads
by: Del Jones aka Nana Kuntu
War Correspondent


BBC News ran a story under the heading ‘Brazil's Police Execute Thousands.’ It’s the same old story of vicious repression doled out to mostly their Black population to keep them in their place. Former Police Ombudsman Professor Julita Lemgruber has told BBC that:

"In the state of Rio alone, the police killed 983 people last year. The figure is similar for Sao Paulo. The federal government should be challenging the various state governments in Brazil about the hundreds of people that the police kill in this country."

As a former ombudsman, Professor Lemgruber was responsible for investigating the police. In the past five years, the number of fatal police shootings has more than doubled. Based on her experience as a government official. She reported that the police are free to act with impunity. She told BBC that:

"You couldn’t really investigate complaints because you knew there was this curtain of silence that was always present... But in the spring of this year events took a sinister turn when, on 31 March, two men entered a bar and started shooting, not once or twice, but again and again. Most of the victims were shot at close range – in the chest and in the head. In all, 29 people were shot dead, apparently not by members of a criminal drug gang – but by off-duty police officers."

These are normal happenings in Brazil as the police execute their task of terrorizing the people to keep them in their places. A former policeman says executions by police death squads are common. “Everyone knows the police here in Rio de Janeiro... nearly all of them abuse their authority.� He says. “When you get excited you feel you are the law... The shooting cases you hear about, most of them are executions. It’s all premeditated – very cold-blooded and calculated.�

But executions by death squads appear to be a traditional feature in Brazil. While the authorities no longer give them official backing, evidence from the city morgues suggests they continue. Lemgruber continues:

"Around 60% of the bodies of people that were killed by the police had more than six shots Most of them [were shot] in the head and in the back – mostly executions.�

Globally the role of the police in oppressive countries is to terrorize and control the people. It is the hope of those in power that fear would stop them from organizing and overthrowing them.

Several years ago I was in Brazil chasing a story that said that police and militia types were hunting homeless Black children and that bounties was being paid for the ears of their dead young victims. I found that the story was true. Ya see, Afrika’s children are under siege globally and only we can stop the bloodletting.



copyright 2006 Del Jones aka Nana Kuntu

[Akyeame Kwame]

Wow...this is Sirius Info Nana Kuntu!

i plan on making my first trip to Brazil in May and plan on going to Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Sao Poalo...

i will definitely pass this info along to those i will be traveling with.

AK

[Kweku_Omowale]

brazil is by product of century old feudalism ak,you know,portuguese feudalism and then colonialism,the system is fraught with errors because,the politicians are corrupt,how can we as civilians expect the police to be what they are,you know,high unemployment rate and poverty are deadly combination,still the desfranchised are amerindians, and afrikans and mesticos,
and caboclos,we are far from having land reforms,let alone,racial democracy,
the people in shanty towns in rio,trust more the drug dealers for protection,than the police,truth be told,because,turf wars,in rio is bigger than amerikkka, my area where i grew up,we call it zona norte,suburbs of rio,have what we call cabeca de areas,meaning,it shanty town,has their own man,that have signals and let the other knows with mortars and fire crackers when the cops are going up the hills, get in touch with me sistah and friend in brazil,blackqueen198 her email is blackqueen198@hotmail.com,she knows me as afrikanwarriorzumbi,she dont know,i have changed my name,also visit the quilombos in parati,sao paulo,afrikan communities and settlement called quilombolas,REAL AFRIKAN SETTLEMENTS! visit vassouras,the oldest sugar mills in rio,where afrikan slaves kept their afrikan names up to this day,then vist alagoas where zumbi dos palmares was born
always from an afrikan from brazil to another afrikan in amerika
i hope i was of any help to you akyeame

[Akyeame Kwame]

Originally Posted by Kweku_Omowale

brazil is by product of century old feudalism ak,you know,portuguese feudalism and then colonialism,the system is fraught with errors because,the politicians are corrupt,how can we as civilians expect the police to be what they are,you know,high unemployment rate and poverty are deadly combination,still the desfranchised are amerindians, and afrikans and mesticos,
and caboclos,we are far from having land reforms,let alone,racial democracy,
the people in shanty towns in rio,trust more the drug dealers for protection,than the police,truth be told,because,turf wars,in rio is bigger than amerikkka, my area where i grew up,we call it zona norte,suburbs of rio,have what we call cabeca de areas,meaning,it shanty town,has their own man,that have signals and let the other knows with mortars and fire crackers when the cops are going up the hills, get in touch with me sistah and friend in brazil,blackqueen198 her email is blackqueen198@hotmail.com,she knows me as afrikanwarriorzumbi,she dont know,i have changed my name,also visit the quilombos in parati,sao paulo,afrikan communities and settlement called quilombolas,REAL AFRIKAN SETTLEMENTS! visit vassouras,the oldest sugar mills in rio,where afrikan slaves kept their afrikan names up to this day,then vist alagoas where zumbi dos palmares was born
always from an afrikan from brazil to another afrikan in amerika
i hope i was of any help to you akyeame

This is a big help and i will definitely follow up! i'm not the one planning the trip but i will definitely make the suggestions b/c the places u listed are definitely of interest to me and i'm sure they would be to my cap instructor as well. good looking out Kweku!

AK

[Don "dumb & dumber" Calico]

The Brazilian police is a CRIMINAL INSTITUTION, that reminds me of the SS squads. It kills anything that stands in its way.

I recommend you inform yourselves (if you haven't already) about the massacre of inmates at Carandiru, the massacre of children at Candelaria and the Bus 174 incident (related to Candelaria) for starters.

[Baba Ahmed]

Kweku if u recall I was exchanging with the sistah in Rio for a brief while, a school teacher right? I may be wrong but I got more of a peace and love vibe than liberation. Im not belittling it, but just adding a lil more info in hopes its useful to our yungun for consideration.

AK, if u'd like her photo, I may have one somewhere.

[Kweku_Omowale]

no elder,quite the contrary,she teachs physical education in one of the ghettoes in rio, and had to help to do drills with students when there is shoot outs between the police and gangs there,she is very conscious,also she is single black mother,i had the opportunity to meet her when i went to brazil,
her reality is the same as all single afrikan womyn that are single mothers in brazil,when blackmen abandons dem,for yt gurls,even tuffer than amerika because we dont have social services and other stuff like north amerikkka,for example elder,single mothers in kanada can get$$ money for childcare,per child,here in kanada,and they can declare in their income tax,in brazil,isa diff ball game,the government dont givea hoots,i had the opportunity to talk to her,went with her to this festival called hutu festival that celebrates zumbi dos palmares birthday november 15th and even gave her afrikan vest

[Baba Ahmed]

Originally Posted by Kweku_Omowale

no elder,quite the contrary,she teachs physical education in one of the ghettoes in rio, and had to help to do drills with students when there is shoot outs between the police and gangs there,she is very conscious,also she is single black mother,i had the opportunity to meet her when i went to brazil, her reality is the same as all single afrikan womyn that are single mothers in brazil,when blackmen abandons dem,for yt gurls,even tuffer than amerika because we dont have social services and other stuff like north amerikkka,for example elder,single mothers in kanada can get$$ money for childcare,per child,here in kanada,and they can declare in their income tax,in brazil,isa diff ball game,the government dont givea hoots,i had the opportunity to talk to her,went with her to this festival called hutu festival that celebrates zumbi dos palmares birthday november 15th and even gave her afrikan vest

This is "good news."

I'm aware of some social and political differences in Brazil compared to this nation's. Just an impression I had. Maybe bcause, I picked up no vibe re the daily revolutionary thoughts sent to her and that she's cool with some Rasta man here. Thanks for an update. I'd no idea u'd met her physically. Is the "Big Brother" eyes as focused and constant there as here or over Kanada? 'specially re emails & telephone calls.

Stay focused and steady my brutha...