WORLD WORLDWIDE BRAZIL News Journal Update - (en) Brazil, OSL, Libera #179 - POLICE OPERATIONS LEAVE A TRAIL OF BLOOD ACROSS THE COUNTRY (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Around 30 people were killed by the SP Military Police in a mega police
operation that began in Guarujá, and then spread to other cities in
Baixada Santista, following the death of a police officer at the end of
July. The massacre brought a climate of terror to communities in the
region, where the most precarious working class lives. Recent killings
in Rio de Janeiro, Bahia and Pernambuco demonstrate how State Terrorism
continues in practice in the country, regardless of the current government.
On the coast of SP, the so-called "Operation Shield" has spread a
climate of terror since the end of July. Residents of the communities
denounce summary executions of unarmed people, some of whom were
involved in the police or prison system. Under the management of
governor Tarcísio de Freitas, the case is the biggest police massacre in
the state of SP since the May Crimes of 2006, when, under the pretext of
combating organized crime, police officers killed more than 500 people,
the majority of whom were young people. black people and residents of
the outskirts. From that tragic episode the Mothers of May movement was
born, which seeks to organize the families of state victims in the
search for truth and justice.
In Rio de Janeiro, in just one day, the police killed ten people in
Complexo da Penha, at the beginning of August. Claudio Castro's
government claimed to fight a criminal faction. Still in August, three
children and teenagers were killed within a week, in communities in Rio:
Thiago, aged 13, Wendell, aged 17, and Eloáh, aged just five. In
Thiago's case, the PM's own internal affairs department denied the
police officers' version that there had been a shooting, and added that
the PMs may have planted a weapon with the teenager. In September, an
action by the Federal Highway Police killed three-year-old Heloísa, with
a gunshot to the back of the head, in Seropédica, in Baixada Fluminense.
While the girl was still hospitalized, at least 28 PRF agents were at
the hospital, in an attempt to intimidate the child's family.
In Bahia, commanded by the PT since 2007, the PM killed at least 30
people in one week, between the end of July and the beginning of August,
also in supposed operations to combat organized crime, in Salvador and
neighboring cities. More deaths followed in the following weeks, and
should keep Bahia as the state with the most deaths committed by the PM
in the country. Even the civil and federal police have participated in
"operations" with deaths during this period.
All these deaths within a period of a few weeks are another episode in
the failure of the War on Drugs, which is actually a war on the working
class that lives in the outskirts, the vast majority of which are black
and precarious, which in the view of the State needs to be controlled. .
In addition to the seriousness of the executions themselves, which
increase violence in communities, the deaths impact the day-to-day lives
of these territories, with the imposition of a climate of fear, the
suspension of classes and work, in addition to the fact that repression
does not reach drug financing and production centers. These are media
operations, which only serve as electoral demagoguery, to stimulate
hatred and violence against the peripheries. They also demonstrate that
the PM's brutal logic spreads to other forces, such as civil and federal
police.
Bolsonaro's defeat at the polls did not shake the violent and racist
structure of the Brazilian State, with the PM being the main tool of
control of the working class most exploited by the holders of capital
and power. It is necessary to radicalize the demands for the expansion
of social rights and denounce the daily violence of the police. It is
essential to support movements denouncing police brutality, in the fight
to end the War on Drugs and the extinction of the Military Police! With
each passing year, we witness episodes of massacres carried out by State
repression forces, which makes it clear that these are not isolated
episodes, but rather part of a historical and structural process.
Therefore, in addition to popular demonstrations of denunciation, it is
necessary to build popular self-defense organizations for the oppressed
classes that are activated to confront these attacks. We cannot trust
the neutrality of the State, as repression is the result of its monopoly
on violence, which is the instrument for maintaining the power of the
dominant classes.

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