Brazil: Police killings of black youths continue, 25 years after the Candelária massacre
(World News Brazil)

The struggle to protect black Brazilian youths from police violence and deliver justice for the victims of the past remains as vital and relevant as ever, Amnesty International said on the 25th anniversary of the Candelária massacre, in which eight young boys were killed by off-duty police officers in Rio de Janeiro. The murder of the boys, who were sleeping rough near the city´s Candelária Church on 23 July, 1993, sparked international outrage. Yet today Brazilian police and other state agents continue to form `extermination` groups who remain one of the main drivers of violence in Rio. `Police violence in Rio de Janeiro has been stimulated by the state´s own policies in the 1990s, which...