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- From: Ron Buckmire <buckmr%rpi.edu@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
- Subject: ONE HOMOSEXUAL KILLED EVERY 5 DAYS IN RIO DE JANEIRO BRAZIL
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- RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (UPI) -- A study published Sunday said one
- homosexual is killed every five days in Rio de Janeiro.
- At least 50 homosexuals were killed between January and September of
- this year in the Brazilian coastal city, with the real figure probably
- much higher due to the reluctance of families to report the full
- circumstances of the deaths, said the Bay Gay Group in a report in the
- daily O Globo newspaper.
- The group also said 1,200 homosexuals were killed throughout the
- country between 1980 and 1991, with most of their bodies showing
- evidence of a violent death.
- The Rio gay organization's vice president, Hildes Cunha, claimed
- about 10 percent of crimes against homosexuals were given a serious
- investigation by police.
- Cunha said the police only bothered with cases involving rich or
- famous homosexuals, such as businessman Aparicio Basilio da Silva, whose
- case was solved 10 days after he was found dead with 97 knife wounds.
- The group's founder, Paulo Cesar Fernandes, said in the O Globo
- report that Brazilian police preferred to register the crimes as
- robberies that resulted in deaths rather than murders.
- Observers agree the groups most at risk in Rio are transvestites and
- homosexuals from abroad.
- The Bay Gay Group's study came from police records, interviews with
- families and newspaper reports.
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- RON BUCKMIRE, 11 Colvin Circle, Troy, NY 12180-3735. ``D.C., April 25 1993''
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- "We are gay, we are black. We are often asked to choose between one or the
- other and we cannot. We need to find the strength to be both."-Pomo Afro Homos
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