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<h1 id="reader-title">It's a 'Genocide Project': New Study
Reveals Shocking Statistics On Black People Murdered In Brazil</h1>
<div class="td-post-author-name"> <a
href="http://atlantablackstar.com/author/tanasia/">Tanasia
Kenney - <span class="td-post-date"><time class="entry-date
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datetime="2017-06-09T12:30:13+00:00">June 9, 2017</time></span></a>
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<p>The killings of African descendants in Brazil has
gotten so bad that a researcher has dubbed the South
American nation a “genocide project” of Black people.</p>
<p>A recent study by the Institute for Applied Economic
Research and the Brazilian Forum of Public Safety,
released Monday, June 5, found that Afro-Brazilians are
23.5 percent more likely to be killed than any other
ethnic group in the country. Researchers’ appropriately
titled “2017 Violence Atlas” also revealed that for
every 100 murders in Brazil, 71 are of Black Brazilians.</p>
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<p>“It’s not by chance that most people who die are Black,
[and] that the majority of those incarcerated are Black
people,” said lawyer, researcher and actress Dina Alves,
who studies race, gender and class in Brazil. “It’s the
state that kills when police kill.”</p>
<p>Alves, an outspoken supporter of the rights of
Afro-Brazilians, said the staggering numbers are proof
that Brazil is virtually exterminating its Black
population. In a sit-down <a
href="https://blackwomenofbrazil.co/2016/12/27/we-die-because-of-our-color-lawyer-researcher-and-actress-dina-alves-breaks-down-how-just-being-black-in-brazil-is-seen-as-a-crime-in-the-criminal-law-system/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">interview
with Black Women of Brazil last year,</a> she
discussed how simply being Black is often viewed as a
crime in Brazil’s criminal law system.</p>
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<p>“For us, Black women and men and indigenous, we are
still in the fight for reaffirmation of our humanity and
political existence,” Alves said. “Why are we the No.
2 country in the Americas with the largest number of
imprisoned? What is the color and gender of prisoners in
Brazil? Why are so many young Blacks killed in Brazil?”</p>
<p>“Answering these questions may make us reflect on the
condition of our existence as Black men, Black women and
indigenous,” she added. “We die and are criminalized by
the condition of our color.”</p>
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<p>Data complied by the atlas was based on information
obtained by the Mortality Information System of the
Brazilian Ministry of Health, <a
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Black-People-Are-a-Genocide-Project-in-Brazil-Says-Researcher-20170607-0036.html"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">TeleSUR
reported</a>. The statistics indicated that in
2007, Brazil’s homicide rate was 48,000 people per year.
By 2015, the number of Brazilians murdered each year had
jumped to 59,080. A large majority of the victims were
young, uneducated Afro-Brazilians who lived on the
outskirts of large cities.</p>
<p>The report found that violence among Blacks increased
by 18.2 percent between 2005 and 2015. Meanwhile, the
homicide rate for non-black individuals fell by 12.2
percent.</p>
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<p>In just the first five months of 2017, “the total
number of murders in the country surpassed the number of
people killed in all of the terrorist attacks in the
world,” researchers wrote.</p>
<p>Though their report doesn’t give statistics on the
number of killings by police, researchers highlighted a
major barrier to justice used by police called “auto de
resistencia,” or resisting arrest. After authorities
kill someone they describe as a “bandido” or thug, they
try to justify their actions as lawful self-defense
because the suspect resisted arrest. More often than
not, the only witness to the killing is another officer,
and the case is recorded as resisting arrest. In turn,
the investigation into the victim’s death isn’t priority
and no police officer is held accountable.</p>
<p>TeleSUR reported that a parliamentary inquiry
commission was created to abolish all forms of
resisting-arrest cases. A law forbidding the practice
was proposed in June of last year but has yet to be
approved.</p>
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