SAO PAOLO // More people have been murdered over the past four years in Brazil than have been killed in the war in Syria, a Brazilian NGO said on Friday.
Nearly 280,000 people were killed in Brazil from 2011 to 2015, according to the Brazilian Public Security Forum. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights counted 256,124 killed over the same period in that country’s civil war.
To reach their figure, the Forum included intentional killings and violent thefts that resulted in death. More than 58,000 people were killed last year alone.
Last year’s murder rate reached 28.6 per 100,000 people, much higher than the 10 per 100,000 that the United Nations considers the threshold for chronic violence.
Three impoverished states in north-eastern Brazil – Sergipe, Alagoas and Rio Grande de Norte – reported the highest murder rates. Sergipe alone had a murder rate of 57 per 100,000 people.
The overall murder rate however was down slightly from 2014.
The forum’s report, now in its ninth edition, also highlighted the endemic problem of police brutality.
The report said that an average of nine people were killed per day by police.
In 2015, law enforcement killed 3,345 people – but 393 police officers were also killed, about a third of them while on duty.
* Agence France-Presse
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Flydubai offers three daily direct flights to Sarajevo and, from June, a daily flight from Thessaloniki from Dubai. A return flight costs from Dhs1,905 including taxes.
The trip
The Travel Scientists are the organisers of the Balkan Ride and several other rallies around the world. The 2018 running of this particular adventure will take place from August 3-11, once again starting in Sarajevo and ending a week later in Thessaloniki. If you’re driving your own vehicle, then entry start from €880 (Dhs 3,900) per person including all accommodation along the route. Contact the Travel Scientists if you wish to hire one of their vehicles.
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The Penguin
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Junichiro Tamizaki
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The Land between Two Rivers: Writing in an Age of Refugees
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· Set the table the night before. It’s a small job but it will make you feel more organised once done.
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His dream is to continue working as a social worker and help people
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