http://observers.france24.com/en/category/tags/shanty-towns The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20080221-eleven-year-old-killed-%E2%80%9Cstray-bullet%E2%80%9D Eleven year old Ágatha Marquez dos Santos is the most recent victim of a police crackdown in South America’s biggest shanty-town, Rocinha. Agatha was watching TV at her father’s house when a rifle bullet flew straight into her chest. Almost 2000 residents from the slum filed into the streets of southern Rio on Saturday, calling for justice to be made. The protesters blame the police outright for the death of the child. For Carlos Costa, a leader of the NGO ‘Viva Rio’ who has lived in Rocinha all his life, the “stray bullet” was triggered by the police force. <p> The aim of the operation was to capture a drugs-trafficker. These police raids in the slums have increased under the cover of an accelerated growth programme; a federal government plan to undertake huge urbanisation works in the area. </p> http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20080221-eleven-year-old-killed-%E2%80%9Cstray-bullet%E2%80%9D#comments photo Brazil police brutality shanty towns -22.973567 -43.395996 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:17:22 +0100 Julien 9649 at http://observers.france24.com