{"id":35693,"date":"2022-05-26T18:18:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T18:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&p=35693"},"modified":"2022-05-30T13:30:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T13:30:44","slug":"committee-of-human-rights-defenders-repudiates-the-massacre-in-vila-cruzeiro","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/committee-of-human-rights-defenders-repudiates-the-massacre-in-vila-cruzeiro\/","title":"Committee of human rights defenders repudiates the massacre in Vila Cruzeiro","content":"

Last Wednesday (25<\/span>th<\/span> of May), the Brazilian Committee of Human Rights defenders<\/a>, which has Conectas as one of its members, published a public note in which it repudiates the joint operation of the Rio de Janeiro police in Vila Cruzeiro, that led to a massacre of at least 25 people.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the petition, the Committee frowned upon the violent acts of the Rio de Janeiro’s public security policy, which engages in war on drugs argument to justify police operations that resulted in deaths of the black and poor population of the urban outskirts and favelas.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is highly unacceptable that in a democratic regime, an official action by the state results in such a high number of lethal victims and so many human rights violations, both against the population living in the favelas (slum) of Penha and Alem\u00e3o, and other favelas in the city of Rio de Janeiro\u201d, the document stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

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