![]() One of the death squads that operate in this manner, the Highlanders, was formed by officers of the 37th Battalion Tactical Force in the South Zone of São Paulo. This causes an exodus, the guy migrates.” According to the Civil Police, helping to lower the statistics of violence in their areas of work, the police receive protection from the command, being favored for top work shifts, extra work, weapons, vehicles and other tactical equipment. “So the vagabonds know that if they steal in that particular vicinity, they’re going to the bag, they die. Denouncements that the police would pass on for the report in Caro Amigos were also sent to public enforcing organs of the law.Īccording to the civil police, death squads operate “in an aegis of social sanitation and control, to honor the command and the government, in order to lower crime rates,” he explains. According to him, such officials are receiving death threats, punishment and disciplinary and administrative proceedings. These are people who are in the following situation: ‘Either I get into or banditry or I am punished,’” says Ivan Seixas, president of the institution. All have a framework that, for us, is very serious. “First came Civil Police investigators and then from the MP – soldier, sergeant, lieutenant and even captain – and police chiefs. The denouncement of the PAO was also taken to the Conselho de Defesa da Pessoa Humana (Condepe or Council for the Defense of Human Person), which has been sought by Civil and Military police who do not agree with torture, killings and disappearances that have been happening in São Paulo. The first spoke with Caros Amigos on the condition of the confidentiality of his identity, alleging that he was being persecuted and had suffered threats and two murder attempts after presenting research reports on death squads. ![]() These serious charges are made by the Civil Police, quoted above, and a sergeant in the Military Police – neither colludes in the illegalities committed by members of their corporations. Those not wishing to join the “caixa-dois” are sent to the PAO. The major encourages the killing of “thieves” and exempts from work those who kill the most. The major of the battalions where PAO is applied intimidates his troops beating his chest and yelling, “I am Highlander, you respect me.” Highlander is a death squad that has this name because it cuts the heads and hands of the victims. Those who dare to stand in solidarity with those punished are punished in the same manner. The punishment is to do side beat outside of the battalion, get 12 hours on foot, with no communication with the other members of the troop and being unable to eat, urinate or defecate. The rule of thee battalion is: did the PM refuse to torture or to kill? Then they go to the PAO: Pelotão de Apoio Operacional (Operational Support Platoon), a kind of punishment given by the command of some battalions of São PauloMilitary Police who refuse to participate in illegalities and abuses, including torture, killings and death squads. “In each battalion of the Military Police there’s a death squad” One facet of these murders is the practice of off duty military police officers killing in revenge, to send a message, eliminate that sector of society that Brazil deems “worthless” or as a form of “ethnic cleansing”.One of our reports featured an interview with one of these assassins in the northeastern state of 75% black Bahia who spoke under the condition of anonymity. Now, the Civil Police of São Paulo have also stepped forward to confirm that “each battalion of the Military Police has a death squad.” Are these death squads part of the reason why homicide among white males dropped 24.8% in the past decade while it rose 5.6% for black males? (1) It’s certainly not a simple question to answer but this could be a piece to the puzzle. These articles have shown that in states like Espírito Santo, Alagoas, Bahia, Paraíba, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, being a black man, particularly between the ages of 18 and 29, can make one 25-40 times more likely to be assassinated than being a white male in that same state (depending on the state). Since the debut of this blog back in late November of 2011, we have published several articles with the objective of exposing the alarming numbers of black men being murdered on the streets of Brazil. Civil Police reveal how the new death squads of São Paulo work and denounce the persecutions the agents suffer that refuse to kill and torture
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