In recent months, there has been growing press attention about the killing of children in Brazil. Eneas' case is just one of the many that create the statistic that every 3 days a child is assassinated in the city of Sao Paulo. The 'shoot first and ask questions later' philosophy of the police and hired killers evolves out of a social and economic situation where poor children are seen as a threat. In pursuit of first world status and development, Brazil has betrayed its long history as a culture especially tolerant and loving of children. International concern of the Eneases of Brazil is important because the present government is particularly sensitive to its image abroad.
Pressure can help bring individuals like the military policemen to justice.
However, it is also important that those of us who are concerned about Brazil's murdered children also be ready to ask more difficult structural questions not only of the Brazilians but also of ourselves and our own political, economic and social systems. It is the result of human infrastructures built on power, control and domination. These elements will never create societies or a world where our children can be nurtured in dignity. November 1991 - Childrens' assassin detained. The technical police in Rio de Janeiro identified a gun as being that responsible for the assassination of two of the eight children massacred outside the Candelaria church in Rio on July 23 last.