Brazil busts death squads after wave of killings

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Brazil busts death squads after wave of killings
Tue Nov 6, 2007 11:05am EST


BRASILIA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Police in northeastern Brazil arrested 34 people, including policemen, lawyers and merchants, on Tuesday on charges of participating in death squads believed to have killed hundreds of people.

The groups operated in Recife, capital of Pernambuco state and the most violent of Brazil's crime-ridden cities based on per capita homicides.

"They specialized in exterminating people but they also did some drug trafficking and theft," Joaquim Neto, spokesman for Pernambuco's security secretary, said by telephone.

Brazil has the world's fourth-highest murder rate with about 45,000 people killed each year, following Colombia, Russia and Venezuela, according to the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN06386018

[tom_paine]

1. Brazil shows Amerika how to deal with Right-Wing Death Squads

Brazil shows Amerika what freedom means.

Instead, our Right-Wing Antrax Assassin gets all the help he needs to remain free (how many has he killed in other ways since the Buhsies let him go, I wonder) from his Bushie Pals.

[flashl]

2. Speaking of the Antrax Assassin

wasn't there a rash of U.S. scientists falling off bridges and dying during walks about that time?

[gtar100]

3. Too bad there aren't more governments who do this

This world won't be secure until these death squads are exterminated. Good on Brazil. But the fact that this is so unusual only says how much further we have to go. But every journey...first step.

[ohio2007]

4. Brazil has the world's fourth-highest murder rate ,behind Colombia, Russia and Venezuela,

with about 45,000 people killed each year, how many are killed in the other big three ?

[happyslug]

5. Here are the Murders and Murder RATES per country:

Murder rates:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita

#1 Colombia: 0.617847 per 1,000 people
#2 South Africa: 0.496008 per 1,000 people
#3 Jamaica: 0.324196 per 1,000 people
#4 Venezuela: 0.316138 per 1,000 people
#5 Russia: 0.201534 per 1,000 people
#6 Mexico: 0.130213 per 1,000 people


Here are the Murder in each country:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur-crime-murders

#1 India: 37,170
#2 Russia: 28,904
#3 Colombia: 26,539
#4 South Africa: 21,995
#5 Mexico: 13,829
#6 United States: 12,658