{"id":32924,"date":"2021-08-10T17:53:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T17:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&p=32924"},"modified":"2021-09-02T12:42:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T12:42:41","slug":"may-crimes-iachr-receives-another-claim-against-the-brazilian-state","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/may-crimes-iachr-receives-another-claim-against-the-brazilian-state\/","title":"Crimes of May: IACHR receives another claim against the Brazilian state","content":"

The IACHR (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organisation of American States) is to investigate and judge the Brazilian state for human rights violations and omissions in the 2006 May Crimes. This is the second case the Commission has accepted regarding the massacre. The first was made in 2009 by Conectas and family members of some of the victims and it is nearing conclusion. <\/span><\/p>\n

The recent decision was in response to an appeal lodged in 2015, by the Public Defender\u00b4s Office of the State of S\u00e3o Paulo and the May Mothers Movement, concerning the execution of nine people in the Baixada Santista, including a pregnant woman. The cases have never been properly clarified by public authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fifteen years ago, during Mothers\u00b4 Day celebrations, the outskirts of S\u00e3o Paulo became the stage of an unprecedented wave of terror and violence. More than 500 people, mostly young black people, were executed between 12 and 21 May 2006, in an episode that has come to be known as the May Crimes. Most of the victims were killed at point blank range by death squads \u2013 hooded men, who were heavily armed, in vehicles without licence plates. <\/span><\/p>\n

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