Over 5,000 people were murdered in
Rio last year, in a battle between rival drugs gangs… and the police militias
who are trying to kill them. So, can the favelas be cleaned up? An extraordinary
report from the murder capital of the world
In pictures: the gangs of Rio
The funeral of a murdered policeman in Rio de Janeiro. Photograph: João Pina
Quotes/extracts
Pastor Sidney explained how it was that he could
see demons: "People who are possessed tend to look at a fixed point
and have a coldness around them--their eyes don't blink. The
persons themselves are absent."
It's like the Middle Ages… there's no purpose other than living
another day Sunday 29 November 2009.]
Pastor Sidney, a 35-year-old former paratrooper, tries to purge a drug trafficker of his demons