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Cruel Confinement: Abuses Against Detained Children in Northern Brazil

"They have a type of bomb that explodes. They got me here with something that hits and explodes," Hamilton A., 17, said of injuries from tear gas and rubber bullets fired by state military police who entered the Centro de Internação Espaço Recomeço, Anani. Copyright © 2003, Michael Bochenek/Human Rights Watch.

“Eles têm um tipo de bomba que explode. Eles me atingiram aqui com algo que bate em você e explode”, disse Hamilton A., 17 anos, sobre os ferimentos causados por gás lacromogêneo e balas de borracha disparadas pela polícia militar estadual no Centro de Internação Espaço Recomeço, Ananindeua, Pará, abril de 2002. Copyright © 2003, Michael Bochenek/Human Rights Watch.

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