Brazil: Survivor of the Carandiru Massacre on 16 years of Impunity
By: Priscila Néri
Posted: Oct 1 08
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Detention, Impunity, Independence of the judiciary
brazil, Carandiru Massacre, impunity, inhumane treatment, Latin America, Mass Killings, prisons, torture
On October 2, 1992, P.P. witnessed and survived the massacre of at least 111 inmates in the Carandiru Prison Complex - São Paulo, Brazil. Sixteen years later, he recounts his experience in a conversation with Raquel Quintino - a human rights activist from the Universidade de Comunicação Livre.
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