{"id":31190,"date":"2016-07-30T08:59:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T11:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=31190"},"modified":"2016-07-30T09:08:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T12:08:24","slug":"residents-under-siege-police-enter-with-guns-blazing-in-mare-favelas-for-3-consecutive-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=31190","title":{"rendered":"Residents Under Siege: Police Enter with Guns Blazing in Mar\u00e9 Favelas for Three Consecutive Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

We are suffering from police invasions across three consecutive days<\/a> in some Mar\u00e9<\/a> favelas, located in Rio\u2019s North Zone<\/a>. Since yesterday morning, Friday July 29, residents have heard shots all day long and have been unable to come and go from their home.<\/p>\n

I, for example, haven’t been able to leave my house until now. During the day I had to dive to\u00a0the ground several times in my home\u00a0to avoid being hit by bullets. These are\u00a0bullets that kill<\/a>, that kill us<\/a>, that prevent us from living and moving<\/a> through the city.<\/p>\n

\"Front<\/a><\/p>\n

For yet another day classes were canceled for some schools in the Mar\u00e9 favelas. Innumerable children\u00a0without class,\u00a0innumerable people unable\u00a0to go to work, many businesses closed all day Friday. Ironically, on the front page of the day’s Extra<\/em> newspaper, the headline read \u201cMilitary Presence in the Streets Slashes\u00a0Violence<\/a>.\u201d It makes us wonder, brings down violence where? This peace they claim to have in the city is for whom and in whose name<\/a>? Why are the favelas always massacred in the name of a mega-event<\/a>? Why do we have to pay with our lives for an event put on for a rich minority of the population? Why, and to what end, must we hear shots since the dawn of Friday?<\/p>\n

In conclusion, it is important to say that this is an invented war, that the War on Drugs is an invented war<\/a>, because in the favelas there are no weapons factories, and even less drug cultivation. But we are the population that society finds acceptable to kill<\/a>, to exterminate, that a majority pretends not to see, that doesn\u2019t even want to know, that even cheers for this terror that we are suffering today in the Mar\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Gizele Martins is a community journalist\u00a0from the Complexo da Mar\u00e9 favelas.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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