CHANNEL4 PRESENTS
UNREPORTED WORLD: BRAZIL (SLUM WARFARE) PART 2 OF 2
Channel 4's remarkable series captures the angst and danger of one of Rio's most notorious favelas, Manguinhos. Harrowing TV. Unreported world travels to Brazil and one of Rio de Janeiro's most notorious mega-slums where drug lords run a parallel state. Reporter Khaled Kazziha and director Tom Porter live for three weeks in one of Rio de Janeiro's most notorius slum areas where drug lords effectively run a parallel state. Reports on how feuds amongst themselves and a war between the drug runners...
In many of Rio's poorest neighbourhoods, drug gangs rule with their own laws. The police only enter these areas heavily armed and often shoot indiscriminately, injuring children and alienating residents who are increasingly supporting the traffickers. Daily funerals of traffickers and policemen perpetuate a cycle of violence that is tearing communities apart.
Kazziha visits one Mothers' Day party organised by traffickers to highlight how the drug lords are winning over the hearts and minds of the communities they rule over, as well as talking to desperate mothers searching for their disappeared sons.
The team then meets up with one of Brazil's most celebrated policemen. A tough cop with a no-nonsense attitude, he tells them: "Human rights are for human beings. What we have to deal with are animals."
The mayor of Rio, Cesar Maia, acknowledges to Unreported World that he is not in control of the whole city, and that the traffickers are operating a parallel state. His only solution is more violence. "Traffickers need to be eliminated: either imprisoned or killed."
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