TeleSUR, 8/23/2014
Hundreds of people demonstrated on Friday in several cities of Brazil about the high and increasing rates of violent death recorded in the country´s Afro-descendent population
The protesters peacefully blocked the main avenue of Sao Paolo, and people also participated in the National Day of Black Genocide in Brasilia, the capital, and in Florianopolis, near the Argentinian border.
An academic study called The Color of Homicides in Brazil revealed in 2012 that while homicides of white people decreased by 24.8 percent between 2002 and 2010 (from 20.6 to 15.5 percent of the total population), homicides against black people reached 36 percent in 2010, a 5.6 percent increase from 2006.
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