Talk:Carandiru Massacre

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[edit] only the criminal's POV?

The article does not mention that the criminals doing the riot actually had guns. Funnily the article mentions that none of the policemen died in the operation, as if it was any bad, as if they were supposed to die to be fair or something. Or as if the policemen were supposed to sacrifice their own life in order to "human-rights correctly" control such a riot, rather than acting with whatever strenght they think is needed to protect their own lives - and the society - againts those who probably are there by being murderers, among other things. I do not quite know the numbers, but there were about a hundred of policemen against maybe thousands of prisoners rioting. At the very beggining, they threw a gas tank which exploded harming at least the higher officer commanding the policemen, which had to be taken to a hospital. I'll search for more content on the other side to put here. The book mentioned apparently is written solely on accounts of prisoners, whom presumable would draw a picture of evil policemen doing a sadistic massacre. --Extremophile 04:38, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

I understand your concern about the NPOV but I think you may have misunderstood the comment about the lack of police deaths. I interpret this comment to suggest that the event was a massacre and that the police did not kill out of self-defence but for some other reason (revenge, anger, lack of proper training...?). Thanks, Hu Gadarn 17:50, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

I think the article, as it currently stands, gives a fairly balanced look at the situation. Thoughts? Should we remove the POV dispute tag? Captainktainer * Talk 09:06, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Let's remove the POV dispute tag. JGKoblenz 17:36, 29 August 2006 (UTC)