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I'm including some videos here regarding my long post about Elite Squad and the war in Rio. They are short, they are REAL footage and they explain the favela wars and about BOPE, the Brazilian SWAT and Rio's war. And, they have English subtitles!
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The first video is not BOPE, but the undertrained Civil Police of Rio.
BOPE is the Elite Squad of the Military Police. Most Military Police also is undertrained compared to BOPE.
Posted by: Aces | October 22, 2007 at 05:58 PM
I was watching Tropa de Elite last night at Jakarta International Film Festival. The film really made me interested to find out more about the recurring violence in Rio and San Paolo's slums versus police corruptions. I was a former New Yorker moved to Indonesia. We've dealing similar problems with corruption in our Police and Military force, fortunately we don't have illegal guns on the streets like in Brazil. What interest me more about the film in general is how BOPE enforcing is no holds-barred rules of engagement. It's kill or be killed. They're really fighting a war there.
Posted by: Cheyenne | December 08, 2008 at 03:07 AM