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| Subject: Brazilian gulag: When you talk about chacina, you are really talking about various people slaughtered at once by police violence Fri Nov 25, 2016 11:06 pm | |
| Last weekend, in the City of God community in Rio de Janeiro - the neighbourhood made famous by the movie of the same name - a police helicopter crashed, killing four officers. Shortly thereafter, another news story broke: Seven bodies had been found in the forest nearby. To an outsider, the two events would have seemed unconnected, but among Brazilians a certain word - a frightening word - began to be spoken: chacina.
The word chacina derives from the killing of pigs in slaughterhouses, and it literally means slaughter or massacre.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/chacina-the-most-frightening-word-in-brazil-20161125-gsy250.html |
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