{"id":45111,"date":"2018-07-16T09:21:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T12:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=45111"},"modified":"2019-08-19T11:15:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T14:15:46","slug":"120-days-protesters-march-for-marielle-demanding-end-to-state-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=45111","title":{"rendered":"120 Days: Mothers of Slain Children March for Marielle Demanding End to State Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

On the night of Thursday, July 12, protesters flooded downtown Rio, marching in remembrance of city councilor<\/span> Marielle Franco<\/a> and victims of police violence throughout Rio de Janeiro.<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, July 14 marked 120 days since the assassination of Marielle and her driver<\/span> Anderson Gomes<\/a>. To date, the question #QuemMatouMarielle?<\/span><\/i> (#WhoKilledMarielle?) remains unanswered. \u201cIt seems to me that we are arriving at a point of<\/span> impunity, of statistics, and we won\u2019t let that happen,\u201d Marielle\u2019s mother,\u00a0<\/span>Marinete da Silva,<\/span>\u00a0told G1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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M\u00f4nica Cunha<\/a> of the<\/span> Network of Communities and Movements Against Violence<\/a> addressed the crowd gathered<\/span> outside the<\/span> historic Candel\u00e1ria Church<\/a>. Cunha\u2014whose son, Rafael da Silva, was killed by police in 2006 in the neighborhood of Riachuelo\u2014told protesters: \u201cLet us say no, let us say enough of this genocide<\/a>. Let us say enough of this racism. We don\u2019t want this for our lives. We weren\u2019t born for this. That\u2019s not why we are here. We cannot accept this. We cannot remain quiet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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As the investigation into Marielle and Anderson\u2019s murder drags on, international pressure has also mounted.<\/span> On June 12,<\/span> Amnesty International<\/a> criticized the lack of progress in the investigation, launching a video of Marielle’s family<\/a> calling for justice, and<\/span>\u00a0calling for the creation of an independent oversight body<\/a>. Days earlier, Pakistani human rights activist Malala Yousafzai<\/a><\/span> visited Rio on her own birthday\u00a0and paid homage to Marielle<\/a>, etching her image on a wall in the Tavares Bastos<\/a> favela.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In her time as a city councilor, Marielle\u2014a black, bisexual woman born and raised in the favelas of\u00a0Mar\u00e9<\/a>\u2014championed human rights for Rio\u2019s marginalized populations, railing against police abuse and state-sponsored violence<\/a> in favelas. On Thursday night, protesters continued her legacy. For activist Maria Dalva Correa da Silva, whose son Thiago was killed by police in the 2003\u00a0<\/span>Borel Massacre<\/a>, the protest was a matter of life and death. \u201cWe have to be here in the resistance. We don\u2019t want helicopters<\/a>, we don\u2019t want armored tanks<\/a> in the favelas, we don\u2019t want guns pointed at us… The State is constantly present, but only with the barrel of a gun and a bullet to rob us of our bodies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Rio has seen an increased State presence since the Brazilian armed forces assumed control of security as part of the federal military intervention<\/a>. The intervention, which has been in effect for five months as of July 16, has done little to improve security.<\/span> According to the Intervention Observatory<\/a>, a monitoring center hosted at the<\/span> Center for Studies on Security and Citizenship\u00a0(CESeC)<\/a> at<\/span> C\u00e2ndido Mendes University (UCAM)<\/a>, state violence has only increased since February. Between February and May 2018, Rio saw 444 people killed by the police, up 34% in comparison to the three months prior to the intervention. The number of shootouts between February and May increased by 36% compared to the previous four months.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bruna Silva, whose son Marcos Vin\u00edcius was killed in a<\/span> joint Armed Forces-Civil Police operation on June 20<\/a>, stood at\u00a0<\/span>the front lines of Thursday\u2019s protest. As she spoke outside City Hall, her daughter stood at her side, holding a sign that read: \u201cThe police didn\u2019t see that my brother was wearing a school uniform<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Silva, who had spoken to the Chamber of Deputies Human Rights Commission<\/a> in Bras\u00edlia days earlier, remarked that the Civil Police classified the operation that killed her son as \u201c<\/span>successful<\/a>.\u201d She clutched the bloody uniform her son wore that day, asking: \u201cIs this what success looks like?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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