{UAH} Brazil is targeting its black population for death

https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article206652379.html?fbclid=IwAR0q8du0jFDdz0i1D-uD8ycp3Qjg2sFH3OV238fUBOZfmAn34BQv-iClLe0  

A black person is murdered in Brazil every 23 minutes. What's startling about that statistic — and Brazil's record-high murder rate, in general — is that it that it is all too often the Brazilian police responsible for killing a generation of black mothers, fathers, future doctors, promising artists and composers — and rising politicians like Marielle Franco. In doing so, they deny Brazil of the human potential, talent and diversity of ideas that transform societies into what they are meant to be.

A report commissioned by the Brazilian Senate concluded that "the Brazilian state, directly or indirectly, perpetrates the genocide of the young black population." That same government provides Brazil's hyper-militarized police force with the tools to commit some of the worst human-rights atrocities in South America, routinely uses extrajudicial killings to silence opponents and eradicate enemies.

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A slice of Afro-Brazil

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"When a man is stung by a bee, he doesn't set off to destroy all beehives"

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