{"id":52398,"date":"2019-03-27T17:01:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T20:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=52398"},"modified":"2019-06-05T17:31:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T20:31:52","slug":"14th-anniversary-of-the-baixada-massacre-local-organizations-plan-a-week-of-remembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=52398","title":{"rendered":"14th Anniversary of the Baixada Massacre: Local Organizations Plan a Week of Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique\u00a0aqui\u00a0para Por<\/strong>tugu\u00eas<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

On the night of March 16, twelve-year-old Kauan Noslinde Pimenta Peixoto died after being shot during a Military Police intervention<\/a> in the community of Chatuba<\/a>, located in the municipality of Mesquita<\/a> in Greater Rio de Janeiro’s\u00a0Baixada Fluminense<\/a>\u00a0region. According to family members, police from the 20th Military Police Battalion (Mesquita) entered the area firing. Military Police officers, on the other hand, allege that the boy had already been shot when they found him. Little publicized in the media was the fact that despite having been shot three times, the officers handcuffed the boy’s lifeless body<\/a>. According to his mother, Kauan wanted to be a Military Police officer.<\/p>\n

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During the burial, his mother\u2014under the effects of tranquilizers\u2014became ill and was taken to the Nil\u00f3polis<\/a> Urgent Care Clinic (UPA). Residents held a protest following the burial, closing off Rua Almirante Batista, where Kauan was killed.<\/p>\n

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Also in Mesquita, on May 18, 2018, Juan Henrique Amorim dos Santos was killed by a plainclothes Military Police officer<\/a>, who got up from the bar where he was sitting and fired eleven shots after confusing a prank with a robbery. Less than two months prior, Juan had been mistaken for a robber<\/a>\u00a0after running away from a shootout and spent nearly a month in the Rio de Janeiro Department of General Socio-Educational Action (DEGASE), a juvenile detention center, before being\u00a0acquitted. Friends and members of the evangelical congregation that he attended protested on social media, asserting the young man’s innocence.<\/p>\n

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His friend Carlos Andr\u00e9 Santos de Jesus, 13, who was with him at the time of the incident,\u00a0was also shot by a police officer and died a week later<\/a>. During the week of Carlos’ stay at the hospital, his family was prohibited from visiting him due to an alleged suspect identification\u2014which was not formalized nor approved by the Public Prosecutor’s Office\u2014by the widow of a slain police officer.<\/p>\n

At the time of the crime, the boy’s father was with his son at a soccer practice just a few kilometers away. Carlos died alone in the hospital room. The time was outside of visitation hours, which are very limited for custodial cases\u2014limited to half an hour three times per week.<\/p>\n

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On February 13 of this year, four bodies were found in Adrian\u00f3polis, a rural area in Nova Igua\u00e7u<\/a>, another municipality in the Baixada Fluminense. On the same day, four more bodies were found in Austin, Nova Igua\u00e7u\u2014two abandoned underneath an overpass and two in a dumpster. On March 23, yet another politician\u2014city councilor Weldel Coelho<\/a>\u2014was assassinated in Engenheiro Pedreira, a neighborhood in Japeri. Between 2015 and 2016, fourteen candidates and politicians were assassinated in the Baixada<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The image of the Baixada Fluminense in the Brazilian public imaginary is that of a region marked by violent crime and collusion between criminals, institutional politics, and local commerce. In the context of this daily reality\u2014which contributes to the construction of a stereotype of the Baixada Fluminense<\/a> as a region composed of hostile communities\u2014in terms of media repercussion and the number of devastated lives, nothing compares to the incident known as the Baixada Massacre<\/a>. This year marks its 14th anniversary.<\/p>\n

On March 31, 2005, Military Police officers killed 29 people and injured two more in several locations in Nova Igua\u00e7u and Queimados, constituting the largest massacre in the history of the state of Rio de Janeiro. The motive involved the officers’ dissatisfaction with increased oversight due to the change in command of several police battalions in the region. Four out of five police officers who had gathered at a bar in Nova Igua\u00e7u left by car and drove through the streets of Nova Igua\u00e7u shooting, executing seventeen people. Thereafter, they killed twelve more in the streets of Queimados<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Since 2006, a year after the tragedy took place, activist Luciene Silva\u2014who is now a representative of the Network of Mothers and Family Members of Victims of State Violence in the Baixada Fluminense<\/a>\u2014has organized a march along Presidente Dutra Road, passing by the location where the bodies were found. At each stop, the victims are commemorated. In recent years, other institutions and movements have joined to show solidarity in this difficult moment. The idea is not only to mourn those who were lost but also to carry out political advocacy work together with public authorities to prevent types of incidents from happening again.<\/p>\n

In 2019, together with partners from several organizations and collectives, the Grita Baixada Forum<\/a> planned a calendar of activities titled the “Week of Remembrance of the Baixada Massacre, 14 Years Later: Our Black Youth Have a Voice<\/a>,”\u00a0along with the traditional march.<\/p>\n

Check out the Agenda (March 25-31):<\/strong><\/h3>\n

“Our Black Youth Have a Voice” Tent<\/a><\/h4>\n

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Representatives from various institutions will be available to introduce themselves. The tent is a place to speak out against violence and in favor of human rights, distribute informational materials, carry out cultural interventions, and support one another.<\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>: March 25-29
\nLocation<\/strong>: Rui Barbosa Square, downtown Nova Igua\u00e7u
\nTime<\/strong>: 4pm-8pm<\/p>\n

Film Screening and Discussion about the Documentary\u00a0Our Dead Have a Voice<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n

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Our Dead Have a Voice<\/em><\/a> is a documentary produced by\u00a0Quiproc\u00f3 Films. The screening is organized by the Grita Baixada Forum and the\u00a0Center for Human Rights of the Nova Igua\u00e7u Diocese. The film recounts the struggle of mothers and family members of victims of state violence.<\/p>\n

Date: March 26
\nLocation: Auditorium of the State Public Defender’s Office, Avenida Marechal C\u00e2mara, 314, downtown Rio de Janeiro
\nTime: 3pm<\/p>\n

Interreligious Service in Memory of the Victims of the Baixada Massacre<\/a><\/h4>\n

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Date<\/strong>: March 29
\nLocation<\/strong>: Rui Barbosa Square, downtown Nova Igua\u00e7u
\nTime<\/strong>: 6pm<\/p>\n

Dawn for the 14th Anniversary of the Baixada Massacre \u2013 Our Black Youth Have a Voice<\/h4>\n

Date<\/strong>: March 30
\nLocations<\/strong>:
\n\u2022 Nil\u00f3polis \u2013 Cal\u00e7ad\u00e3o de Nil\u00f3polis (Av. Mirandela, downtown Nil\u00f3polis), in front of McDonald\u2019s
\n\u2022 S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o de Meriti (Matriz Square)
\n\u2022 Duque de Caxias (to be confirmed)
\nTime<\/strong>: 9am<\/p>\n

14th Anniversary of the Baixada Massacre March\/Demonstration<\/a><\/h4>\n

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Date<\/strong>: March 31
\nLocation<\/strong>: Meeting point at Besouro Ve\u00edculos (Presidente Dutra Road, 15380, near the overpass on Rua Dr. Barros J\u00fanior, Rio de Janeiro).
\nTime<\/strong>: 9am<\/p>\n

The following groups collectively contributed to the creation of this agenda: the\u00a0Network of Mothers and Family Members of the Baixada Fluminense \u2013 RJ<\/a>, the\u00a0Network of Communities and Movements Against Violence<\/a>, the\u00a0Grita Baixada Forum<\/a>, the\u00a0+ N\u00f3s Pr\u00e9-Vestibular<\/a>\u00a0college entrance exam preparatory course,\u00a0Casa Fluminense<\/a>,\u00a0Amanhecer Contra a Redu\u00e7\u00e3o<\/a>\u00a0(“Dawn Against the Reduction of the Age of Criminal Majority”),\u00a0World Vision Brazil<\/a>,\u00a0Quipr\u00f3quo Films<\/a>,\u00a0Levante Popular da Juventude<\/a>\u00a0(“Youth Rising”), the\u00a0Federation of Social and Educational Assistance Organizations<\/a>\u00a0(FASE), the\u00a0Favelas Observatory<\/a>, the\u00a0Humanitarian Center for Education, Ideas, and Alternative Training \u2013 Jardim Gramacho<\/a> (CHEIFA), the\u00a0Citizenship Action Commission \u2013 Nova Igua\u00e7u<\/a>, the\u00a0State Truth Commission on Black Slavery in Brazil<\/a> (CEVENB) of the Brazilian Order of Attorneys \u2013 Rio de Janeiro (OAB\/RJ), the\u00a0Rio de Janeiro Youth Forum<\/a>,\u00a0Movimenta Caxias<\/a>, Youth Public Policy Monitoring<\/a>, the\u00a0S\u00e3o Gon\u00e7alo Baptist Community<\/a>, the\u00a0Kwe Cej\u00e1 Gb\u00e9\u00a0Candombl\u00e9 House<\/a> of the Djeje Mahin Nation, the\u00a0Baixada Dolphins<\/a> swim club, the\u00a0Center for Human Rights of the Nova Igua\u00e7u Diocese<\/a>, the\u00a0Pastoral Land Commission<\/a>, Youca Brasil, and\u00a0Reden\u00e7\u00e3o Baixada<\/a>\u00a0(“Baixada Redemption”).<\/p>\n

This article was written by Fabio Leon and produced in partnership between RioOnWatch and the Grita Baixada Forum<\/a>. Leon is a journalist and human rights activist who works as communications officer for F\u00f3rum Grita Baixada. Grita Baixada is a forum of people and organizations working in and around the Baixada Fluminense, focusing on developing strategies and initiatives in the area of public security, which is considered a necessary requirement for citizenship and realizing the right to the city. Follow the F\u00f3rum Grita Baixada on\u00a0Facebook here<\/a>.<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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