#operation shield

Following the death of a military policeman, allegedly at the hands of drug traffickers from Guarujá, São Paulo, Brazilian police began an operation in the area that has resulted in the deaths of 16 people as of August 2. 

The operation has drawn criticism and human rights groups are accusing the police of excessive violence and abuse. São Paulo’s state government denies the accusations, and says the goal of the operation is to combat organized crime and drug trafficking. 

The case began on July 27 when military police officer Patrick Bastos Reis, from the elite battalion of the São Paulo Military Police, was killed during a routine patrol in a poor community in Guarujá, a city with around 320,000 residents and that has a lot of drug dealing activity because it is close to a ship port. 

Another officer was shot in the hand but survived. Police reacted immediately, launching what they called “Operation Shield,” a search bloc of police officers combing poor communities in the area in search of those involved in the policeman’s murder. 

ऑपरेशन शील्ड: 3 राज्य, 2 UT में ड्रिल, गूंजेंगे वॉर सायरन, क्या होगा?

भारत और पाकिस्तान के बीच सीमा पर तनाव के बीच देश के 3 राज्यों और 2 केंद्र शासित प्रदेशों में भारतीय सेना मॉक ड्रिल लॉन्च कर रही है. पहले मॉक ड्रिल के बाद भारत ने ऑपरेशन सिंदूर को अंजाम दिया है, अब एक बार फिर मॉक ड्रिल को लेकर सोशल मीडिया पर तरह-तरह के दावे किए जा रहे हैं. शनिवार को पंजाब, हरियाणा, राजस्थान, गुजरात, चंडीगढ़ और जम्मू-कश्मीर में 'ऑपरेशन शील्ड' के तहत सिविल डिफेंस ड्रिल आयोजित की जा रही है. 

सिविल डिफेंस मॉक ड्रिल को इस बार 'ऑपरेशन शील्ड' का नाम दिया गया है. पहले यह अभ्यास 29 मई को होने वाला था लेकिन प्रशासनिक वजहों के चले इसे टाल दिया गया था. अब एक बार फिर सोशल मीडिया पर बहस छिड़ी है कि क्या सीमा पर तनाव बढ़ने वाला है. हालांकि सेनाओं का रुख साफ है कि संघर्ष विराम समझौते को तब तक माना जाएगा, जब तक पाकिस्तान दोबारा आतंकी गतिविधियों को शुरू नहीं करता है.

पूरा आर्टिकल पढ़ने के लिए नीचे लिंक पर क्लिक करें👇

After police action resulted in the killing of at least 16 people in Guarujá, where extra-judiciary executions are also said to have taken place, members of the South American country's black movement staged a demonstration Thursday in front of the Public Security Secretariat (SSP) in downtown São Paulo, Agencia Brasil reported. “We need to immediately end Operation Shield, which is a revenge operation against the communities of that territory. The residents are absolutely frightened, terrified,” said Elaine Mineiro, or Elaine do Quilombo Periférico, a São Paulo councilwoman, who spoke on Wednesday with residents of the areas where the killings took place. “What we heard there is that the men are afraid to go home. They ask their wives to pick them up from work because the preferred target is men, almost always black and young,” she said. On July 27, Military Police Officer Patrick Bastos Reis of the Tobias de Aguiar Ostensive Rounds Battalion (Rota), was shot and killed in Guarujá. According to the SSP, he was shot while patrolling in a community. The secretariat reported that he was hit by a 9-millimeter (mm) caliber shot. After the police officer's murder, the state began Operation Shield in the Baixada Santista region, with at least 16 civilians killed so far.