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April 29, 2016

Amnesty: 11 People Killed by Police in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro This Month
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Amnesty International says police in Brazil have killed at least 11
people this month in Rio de Janeiro, where the Olympic Games are set to
begin in less than 100 days. Amnesty says the majority of the victims
are young black men from the city's poorer neighborhoods, known as
favelas. In 2015, 307 people were killed by police in Rio-which
accounted for one in every five homicides.


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