[PDF.17oq] The Candelária Massacre: How Wagner dos Santos Survived the Street Children's Killing that Shook Brazil

Julia Rochester worked for Amnesty International for six years, heading its research and campaigning desk for Brazil. She is editor and co-owner of the independent publishing company Corvo Books.

Just after midnight, in the early morning of July 23, 1993, a group of men later identified as off-duty policemen opened fire on a group of street children sleeping rough 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—the Cariocas—and took them to the streets in protest. Shortly...

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