The Candelaria child massacre

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In 1993, eight homeless children were murdered outside the Candelaria church in Rio De Janeiro. The murders caused international outrage and put a spotlight on corrupt policing in Brazil. Matt Pintus has been speaking to Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, a social worker and teacher who had worked with the Candelaria children for years before the massacre. (Photo: Yvonne Bezerra de Mello with the Candelaria children, Credit: courtesy of Yvonne Bezerra de Mello)

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0:00.0	What's up, y'all?
0:01.0	I'm Renee Montgomery and my podcast Untold Legends Aura is available now.
0:06.6	I'm looking back on the life of one of the most extraordinary black female sport stars
0:11.6	of the 20th century, whose name has been all but forgotten.
0:16.0	Aura Washington.
0:18.1	Stay listening at the end of this podcast to find out more.
0:23.9	Hello, welcome to this edition of the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service
0:35.1	with me, Matt Pintas.
0:37.1	I'm taking you back almost 30 years to a child massacre.
0:41.9	In 1993, eight homeless children in Brazil were murdered in cold blood.
0:47.4	You're going to hear about this crime and another violent crime that one of the survivors
0:52.3	went on to commit.
0:56.5	It's the 23rd of July 1993 in downtown Rio de Janeiro.
1:03.0	Social worker Ivon Bazaridemelo is in bed staring at the ceiling, unable to sleep.
1:09.8	Still no call.
1:11.3	But then, it's almost midnight, the children must be fine, Ivon tells herself to stop worrying.
1:17.5	The homeless children who camped outside the Candolaria Church always played on a Vons
1:22.0	mind before she went to sleep.
1:24.2	After all, there were more than 60 of them and they were so young, some just six.
1:30.6	But she had given them some money to call her in emergencies and with the clock creeping
1:36.0	into the next day, there was no phone call.
1:39.9	Everything seemed fine.
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