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Brazil protesters say 9,000 have disappeared in 2 years
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| Last Edited | Jason Dec 09, 2008 10:58pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, December 10, 2008 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (CNN) -- Protesters took to the fabled Brazilian beaches of Copacabana on Tuesday to draw attention to the 9,000 people they say have disappeared in Rio de Janeiro since January 2007.
The group ONG Rio de Paz staged a cemetery on the sand, with mannequins representing those who have been slain and secretly buried. Demonstrators also constructed facsimiles of ovens that narcotics traffickers and death squads reportedly use to cremate remains of those they have abducted.
"In general, they are assassinated by police," said Antonio Carlos Costa, president of ONG Rio de Paz, "police acting outside of their regular work hours. They are also assassinated by narco-traffickers. The bodies are disposed of in secret cemeteries in the metropolitan Rio de Janeiro area or incinerated alive by narco-traffickers in what they call 'microwaves.' "
Costa pointed out there was a great outcry when 138 political activists disappeared during Brazil's military dictatorship from 1964-'85. |
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