Dozens of people have taken part in a march and symbolic burial in Rio de Janeiro, to protest against violence in the city’s shantytowns.<br /><br /> It comes after a ten-year-old boy was killed last week, during a police operation targeting suspected drug traffickers in the Alemao favela complex. <br /><br /> It was the fourth death in the community in 24 hours. <br /><br /> “(I’m here to demand) those governing (the country) – to ask the police officers to put down their weapons against civilians. The good people, the children, the population deserves respect,” said one demonstrator. <br /><br /> Protesters held banners with the name of the boy killed last week, Eduardo de Jesus Ferreira, as they took part in the symbolic burial ceremony on Copacabana beach.<br /><br /> They also highlighted other child killings over the past eight years. <br /><br /> In the wake of days of protests, some of them angry, Rio’s governor has reportedly said that military police will now be sent to the Alemao.complex.
