Armed conflict for control of the favelas
| Armed conflict for control of the favelas in Greater Rio de Janeiro | |||||||||
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BOPE agents during a raid using a "Caveirão" in 2007 | |||||||||
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Police death squads |
Amigos dos Amigos | Comando Vermelho |
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| 42,000+ deaths | |||||||||
The armed conflict for control of the favelas in Greater Rio de Janeiro or simply Civil conflict for control of the favelas is an ongoing conflict between Brazilian militias, organized criminal groups Comando Vermelho, Amigos dos Amigos, Terceiro Comando Puro and the Brazilian state.
According to law student Carlos Gilberto Martins Junior, Brazil, with emphasis on the State of Rio de Janeiro, there has been an arbitrary use of these powers and attributions, conferred on police institutions, to satisfy the patrimonial aspirations of some of its agents, through territorial domination and violence, to the detriment of the peripheral communities and under the pretext of saving them from the "greater evil" represented by drug trafficking, corroborating the emergence of criminal organizations which are conventionally called the "militia".