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" The Candelária Massacre : "
Julia Rochester.
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BL
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1023221
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b777591
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| Main Entry
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Rochester, Julia.
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The Candelária Massacre : : how Wagner dos Santos survived the street children's killing that shook Brazil /\ Julia Rochester.
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London :: Vision,, 2008.
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xi, 244 pages ;; 22 cm
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1905745265
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: 9781905745265
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-241).
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| Contents
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23 July 1993 -- Part I : it happened -- The new democracy -- Wagner dos Santos -- Real life -- Come-gato/ruço -- Taking over Candeĺaria -- Birthday party -- Part II : investigations -- Identification parades -- Hospitals and funerals -- Whispers and rumours -- Vigário geral -- Refuge in Bahia -- The rio comprido link -- 'O corpo fechado' -- 'A closed body' -- Part II : testimony -- Secret investigations -- Second time around -- Running and hiding -- Back on the case -- The move to Geneva -- Nelson Cunha -- New suspects -- Sonia -- The trial -- Part IV : exile -- Understanding the past -- No return -- Doubts and certainties -- March 2007 -- 22 July 1993 -- This Rio de Janeiro.
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On 23 July 1993, off-duty policemen opened fire on a group of street children who were sleeping outside one of Rio de Janeiro's most prominent landmarks--the Church of Our Lady of the Candelária. The incident became known as the Candelária Massacre and it roused the people of Rio to the streets in protest. Shortly before the shootings, the policemen picked up three boys and took them off in their car to be shot elsewhere. One of them, Wagner dos Santos, survived and his survival altered the political landscape of Brazil. This book tells his story--growing up in Rio's orphanages and gangland favelas; being shot during the massacre then being shot again a year later in attempt to silence his testimony; and being forced into exile for his own safety.
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Santos, Wagner dos.
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Santos, Wagner dos.
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Demonstrations-- Brazil-- Rio de Janeiro.
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Massacres-- Brazil-- Rio de Janeiro.
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Police brutality-- Brazil-- Rio de Janeiro.
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Street children-- Crimes against-- Brazil-- Rio de Janeiro.
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Demonstrations.
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Manners and customs.
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Massacres.
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Police brutality.
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Street children-- Crimes against.
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Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Social life and customs.
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Brazil, Rio de Janeiro.
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| Dewey Classification
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981.53064092
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HV8185.R5R63 2008
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