‘They came to kill’: Rio’s deadliest favela police raid sparks calls for change
by Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro from World news | The Guardian on (#5HPJT)
Rio's favelas have suffered countless horrors since the drug conflict began to intensify in the 1980s and the carnage in Jacarezinho has caused a wave of protest
Shaken, shoeless and with a gaping bullet wound to one of his feet, the young man staggered through Flavia Luciana's front door at around 8am last Thursday as Rio's decades-long drug conflict plumbed horrifying new depths.
Help me! For the love of God! Help!" she remembers him pleading as he sought shelter inside.
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