#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #BRAZIL #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Brazil, lutafob: One year of the Jacarezinho massacre By SIGA-RJ (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 On May 6, 2021, the police forces of the state of Rio de Janeiro carried out the

biggest massacre in the history of the state capital, with the execution of 28
residents of the Jacarezinho favela, located in the North Zone. ---- History of
Jacarezinho, from the quilombo to the resistance against the dictatorship ----
The Jacarezinho favela, like many others, has its origins in quilombos during the
slavery period. In the 1930s, the region underwent a process of
industrialization, in addition to the Concórdia and Fábrica Unida de Tecidos
factories, new industries were installed: Cruzeiro, General Electric and Cisper.
At the beginning of the 1960s, there was a new industrial growth, with the
program of the Industrial Complex of Jacaré.
During the Business-Military Dictatorship of 1964, the Jacarezinho favela
received the nickname "Moscouzinho", as the community had a strong presence of
militants and political organizations of resistance to the dictatorial regime.
In the so-called period of "redemocratization", in the 1980s, in addition to a
strong Residents Association, the community had many active unions, promoting
political debates and demands for better wages and living conditions.

Act at Plácio Guanabara, February 16, 2022. Photo by @condensdos.da.terra
2. Neoliberalism and State Terrorism

The 1990s are the mark of the advance of neoliberal policies. Many companies
closed and the Jacarezinho favela region begins a process of
de-industrialization. On the other hand, the neoliberal period is also
characterized by the increase in State violence against the black, poor and
favela-dwelling people. It was in 1992 that the Collor de Mello government
promoted the occupation of the streets of Rio de Janeiro by the armed forces. In
1994, under the Itamar Franco government, Operação Rio was carried out, placing
more soldiers and tanks around the favelas.
Neoliberal policies and repressive actions with the use of the Armed Forces
coincide with the advance of State Terrorism, promoting the genocide of the
black, poor and favela people through summary executions, disappearances and
massacres.
In 1990, the Acari Massacre took place, 11 young people were murdered. In 1993,
the Vigário Geral massacre, in the North Zone of Rio, killed 21 residents of the
community. In the same year, the Candelaria massacre took place, when 8 street
children were executed. In 1998, 4 young people were executed by police officers
who were doing security work, an episode known as the Maracanã Chancia. In 2005,
the Baixada Fluminense massacre took place, the largest in history with 30
deaths. These massacres were promoted by death squads made up of police and
military personnel.
As of the 2000s, massacres in Rio de Janeiro ceased to be a predominant practice
of death squads and were definitively incorporated into the operations of the
state's police and military forces.
During the 2007 Pan American Games, the National Force, founded under the Lula
government, executed 19 residents of Complexo do Alemão. In the context of the
popular protests of 2013, a BOPE operation executed 10 residents of the Maré
favela. On February 8, 2019, 13 young people were murdered in Morro do
Fallet-Fogueteiro in a joint operation between BOPE and the Military Police Shock
Battalion.

Act in memory of the victims of the Jacarezinho Massacre, May 6, 2022
3. The Jacarezinho Massacre

Governor Claudio Castro has in the terrorist policies against the black, poor and
favela people his main platform for reelection. Therefore, even with the Justice
having prohibited police operations in the communities during the pandemic, the
state government launched the police operation "Exceptis" of the Special
Resources Coordination (Core) of the civil police. The result was the biggest
massacre in the City of Rio de Janeiro, with 28 residents executed.
Among the victims of the massacre were: Jonas do Carmo Santos, 31 years old,
bricklayer's helper, Jonathan Araújo da Silva, 18 years old, market delivery man,
Francisco Fabio Dias Araújo Chaves, 25 years old, app delivery man, Marlon
Santana de Araújo, 32 years old, taxi driver. Families and witnesses denounce the
executions.
Despite the protests, the Castro government continued, and continues, with its
genocidal policy. On November 22, in the community of Salgueiro, in São Gonçalo,
in the metropolitan region, an operation by the Military Police and the BOPE
executed 10 residents and threw their bodies into a mangrove swamp.

4. We demand an end to the genocide of black people!

The bourgeois classes and their Racist State promote a terrorist policy of
extermination of the black, poor and favela people. The repressive forces,
police, military and militias constitute the armed wing of the ruling classes,
instrument of domination and oppression over the people.
Only the popular self-defense organization will be able to put an end to the
ongoing genocide.
Our territories need to be under the control of popular committees capable of
preventing the free action of the repressive forces of the State.
The organized struggle between grassroots community movements, students and
unions are tasked with organizing a Black General Strike Against Genocide!

Black lives matter!

For People's Self-Defense!

Build the Black General Strike Against Genocide!

https://lutafob.org/9511/
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