Brazil has excluded complaints of police violence from an annual human rights report, sparking allegations on Friday of a cover-up amid global outrage over racial injustice and use of excessive force by law enforcement.
FILE PHOTO: A woman wearing a protective face mask holds a banner reading"Stop killing us" as she takes part in a protest against police violence during operations in slums against drug gangs and racism in Brazil, in front of the Guanabara Palace in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 31, 2020. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares
Bolsonaro, a former army captain, campaigned for president on a law-and-order platform. He has repeatedly backed police crackdowns on criminality, drugs and gangland violence. Criminals should “die like cockroaches,” he has said. The Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights, responsible for publishing the report, said in a statement the information was left out for technical reasons.
The outrage about the report comes the same week that Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered the Health Ministry to restore detailed data on coronavirus deaths and infections that had been taken down amid allegations Bolsonaro’s government was trying to mask the severity of the outbreak, now the second largest in the world.
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