A police officer with an axe in the Macaco favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during a mission against a criminal gang. Image: Humberto Ohana/PA Images, All Rights Reserved.
Massacres in Brazil show the relationship between the expansion of military justice and impunity.
The debate revolves around the expansion of the jurisdiction of the military (military justice, not common justice) to prosecute crimes involving civilians – be they defendants, or victims of human rights violations by members of the Armed Forces.
