arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

The film takes 2h 15' but it's worth...
The 1992 Carandiru massacre of 111 prisoners by the Brazilian police inside a jail in Sao Paulo shocked the world. The massacre occurred on the eve of the municipal elections in São Paulo, a fact that greatly influenced the official response to the slaughter. Now revelations are made claiming that 75% of those killed were shot in their cells, with the killers standing in the doorways.
Colonel Ubiratan Guimaraes, the head of the police corps which stormed the prison on 2nd October, 1992, managed to escape the Brazilian justice system because he had become a parliamentary assistant. This set back the justice process by a decade as he gained immunity through his political connections..
During the trial, the criminal justice expert Osvaldo Negrini stated that 85 of the 111 inmates killed had been shot in their cells and that there had been no evidence of a fight with the police, giving evidence to the growing theory that there had been a massacre, as so often in the history of the Brazilian police force.
Furthermore, evidence had been tampered with since the bodies of the prisoners were quickly removed and piled up on a patio before the first investigators could arrive, meaning that forensic and ballistic tests could not be carried out in the area of the crime.
Weapons confiscated from the police shortly after the incident showed signs of having been fired in the recent past prior to the investigation.
Pravda.Ru has recently revealed amnesty international figures, which refer to beatings extortion and killings being common practice among Brazil-s police and armed forces, protected by a corrupt political class whose main aim is to perpetuate their own power base.

After the smoke cleared at 6:30 p.m., 515 shots had been fired, killing 103 prisoners, with another eight dead from wounds caused by knives and other objects. Another 130 prisoners and twenty-three policemen were left wounded. No policemen were killed.

In Brazil, 5% of the population owns 95% of the country-s wealth and 40% of the 150 million population live below the poverty line.

http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/06/28/8879.html
http://www.global.org.br/english/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=38
http://carandiru.globo.com/