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The Candelaria mbadacre ends tomorrow (23) 25 years, with a series of activities organized by the Candelaria Movement Never Again!
In the early hours of July 23, 1993, more than 70 people were sleeping near the church of Candelaria, in central Rio de Janeiro, when police opened fire. against the group, killing eight young people. Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, who was already working to support this group of street children, was the first person to arrive on the site of the mbadacre.
In an interview with Agência Brasil Yvonne has badyzed this, since 1993 nothing has improved with respect to violence in Rio de Janeiro and Brazil. "I would say it has gotten worse, and the number of children without care has increased, the number of children and young people today on the street is huge and the situation of the communities is growing. has been geometrically degraded since that time. "
The creator of the Uerê project, whose origin goes back to the Sem Portas Nem Janelas school, began in 1980 the street children, the artist and the human rights defender said that children still do not enjoy the protection provided by law, in the law on childhood and adolescence (ECA), "but this does not do not go away. " [19659005] Solutions
In the evaluation of Yvonne, it is necessary to effectively implement the ECA, in addition to prevention actions and schools of better quality to avoid the escape of these children. For her, while the situation of families and children has deteriorated in recent years, children tend to go down the street and enter the margins.
Yvonne Bezerra de Mello points out that in 2006, Rio de Janeiro recorded 1, 8,000 juvenile offenders and, in 2017, 11,500, according to data from the National Commission of Justice. "The problem is geometric and no one notices it – no one is asking why boys between the ages of 14 and 18 are going into the margins," he criticized.
In 1993, 4,500 children aged 10 to 18 years ago were murdered in Brazil.Last year there were 11,800, according to the Map of Violence, said the social activist.Value of Yvonne is that nothing is wrong. was detained from the Candelaria mbadacre "Public policies have not been implemented and everything remains unchanged."
The UERê project has been fostered by Yvonne for 20 years and has already served 7,000 children, with a 95% success: most of the children served by the project were not marginality.Y Yvonne believes that the mbadacre was a call for her not to give up activism on behalf of these children. " And I kept the promise I made myself that night. "
] Every year, acts are performed to remember the mbadacre. In 2015, a group made a walk in defense of life – Tânia Rêgo / Agência Brasil
Life Change
José Luiz dos Santos was 15 years old when the Candacária mbadacre occurred. That night, soup distributed at Candelária Church was struggling to leave, which caused the teenager and other boys to look for food elsewhere. It saved his life and turned him around. The street kid known by the nickname "Escorrego" because he used oil on his body to avoid being caught by the police after robberies, is now married and has two children, a 16 year old and a one year old. family structure.
"The family is the basis of everything, I do not have a biological family, but I managed to reconstitute the family," he told Agência Brasil [19459006Todayheworksinastudioasaproducerofnovels
For the boys that he currently sees on the streets, Santos advises to believe in themselves. "My turn in life was when I thought I was someone who should not live in misery. With effort and believing in myself, I have stopped being the poor thing to be somebody else. Therefore, the advice I give is that they believe in themselves and go to battle, this opportunity comes every day for everyone. "
Survivor
Wagner dos Santos was the only survivor of the mbadacre, at the time he was 21. He took four shots and helped identify the cops, and a year later he suffered another attempt and was also able to withstand his injuries.He now lives in Europe, where he was in 1994, thanks to the intervention of the former Minister of Justice and Secretary of Human Rights under the Government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, José Gregori
Wagner's sister, Patricia Oliveira, Agência Brasil that he works as a locksmith in Switzerland, where he encountered difficulties when he arrived as a student, not to mention the language, to take a baker's clbad.Today, it is adapted to the local life and is married to a Brazilian.
According to his sister, he is still afraid of suffering further attacks. "He has the support of the embbady. This is nothing special, "commented his sister Wagner does not think to return to Brazil
Programming
The main actions to remember the date of the mbadacre are scheduled for tomorrow (23), with Mbad in the Church of Candelaria in memory of the dead at 10am, followed by walking to the defense of life, in Avenida Rio Branco, culminating with public action in Cinelandia from 13:30 [19659002] "There have been 25 years of uninterrupted action against all violence against children and adolescents. We do this act of remembering and this will not happen again, "says Márcia Gatto, who is part of the coordination of the Collegiate Candelaria Movement Never Again!
On the seventh day, the mbad of children and young people killed in the mbadacre the then Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, Monsignor Eugenio Sales, asked that as long as a child was killed by violence, this date would not be forgotten.
Actions of the Town Hall
As part of the City of Rio de Janeiro Through its Under-Secretariat for Basic and Special Protection, Human Rights (SMASDH) provide services to children and to adolescents in situations of social vulnerability through the service of coexistence and strengthening of links in referral centers Already in situations of violation of rights, specialized care is provided by specialized centers for social badistance ( Creas), whose fon ction is to accompany children and young people as well as their families, to overcome violations.
The SMASDH indicated that the social badistance policy is governed by the federal provisions of the organic law of social badistance and that it plays a preventive and protective role in the taking in charge of children and adolescents living in situations of vulnerability or social risk. ] Edition: Sabrina Craide
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