Par Public Prosecutor Blames Slavery on Indigenous People

[Judi Lynn]

Pará Public Prosecutor Blames Slavery on Indigenous People
Ricardo Albuquerque da Silva also said that he doesnt owe quilombolas anything

Nov.27.2019 12:59PM

Mônica Bergamo
SÃO PAULO
A Pará public prosecutor said last Tuesday (26) that black slavery in Brazil occurred because "indigenous people don't like to work."

"This problem of slavery here in Brazil happened because indigenous people do not like to work. And this remains the case today," said attorney Ricardo Albuquerque da Silva in a presentation to students at a university in Pará. He is also a general ombudsman for the Public prosecutor office.

"The Indian would rather die than dig the mine, plant for the Portuguese. And that's why they [Portuguese colonizers] went to fetch people from the tribes there in Africa to replace the Indian labor force here in Brazil."

He also said that he doesn't think "we owe quilombolas anything." "None of us here have a slave ship. None of us brought a ship full of people from Africa to be enslaved here in Brazil."

More:
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2019/11/para-public-prosecutor-blames-slavery-on-indigenous-people.shtml



The Attorney Ricardo Albuquerque da Silva
Photo: Reproduction / MPPA



Ricardo Albuquerque da Silva,
the prosecutor caught by the
PRF driving drunk.



In a brief speech of less than five minutes, Ricardo Albuquerque emphasized that he is prepared and enthusiastic to fulfill the mandate of ombudsman. He emphasized that one of his main areas of work will be to strengthen the transparency of MPPA activities and the protection of human rights.




Exactly the kind of guy Bolsonaro wants to see in government. Another Trumpian stable genius. Where are these P.O.S.'s coming from, anyway? Is there a crack in the earth's plates?

[rampartc]

1. sounds like the europeans were too damn lazy to dig their own mines

[Judi Lynn]

2. But not so lazy they couldn't manage to steal all the profits & hire folks to beat down the workers.

It would be unseemly for the rich thieves to physically have anything to do with the slaves whose lives they had stolen.

On edit:



This is a copy placed in a public place of a device they invented to torture slaves who got out of line, called "The Parrot's Perch," or "pau de arrara" in Portuguese.

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Torture technique

Pau de arara can also refer to a physical torture technique designed to cause severe joint and muscle pain, as well as headaches, and psychological trauma. The technique consists of a tube, bar, or pole placed over the victim's biceps and behind the knees while tying the victim's both ankles and wrists together. The entire assembly is suspended between two metal platforms forming what looks like a parrot's perch.

This technique is believed to originate from Portuguese slave traders, which used Pau de arara as a form of punishment for disobedient slaves. Its usage has been more recently widespread by the agents of the political police of the Brazilian military dictatorship against political dissidents in the 1960s and 1970s and it still believed to be in use by Brazilian police forces<1>, although outlawed<1>. The device was often used as a restraint for a combination of other torture techniques, such as water boarding, nail pulling, branding, electric shocks, and sexual torture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pau_de_Arara

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A Brazilian overseer whipping a slave in the colonial era



...and a portrayal of the similar "parrot's perch," which the military dictatorship of
1964-1985 used in torturing Brazilian citizens.

[rampartc]

3. "enhanced interrogation techniques"

is there no end to the capacity to oppress the defenseless?