A symbolic empty coffin buried at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for a boy named Eduardo, represents the latest child death in gunfire between the police and drug dealers in the city’s shanty towns. <br /><br /> Since 2007, 18 children have been collateral victims. <br /><br /> At the head of NGO Rio of Peace, among the grassroots organisations protesting, Antonio Costa said: “The middle class don’t often raise an outcry over the killing and human rights violations in the favelas. We want to change the culture in our city. A boy was killed this week. We cannot stay silent!”<br /><br /> The family of ten-year-old Eduardo de Jesus Ferreira says he was hit by a bullet in the head outside his home in the Alemao favela, in the north of Rio. <br /><br /> The Rio State Government covered the cost of his funeral, and Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has promised to investigate the tragedy. <br /><br /> Stray bullets also killed three other people in Alemao in 24 hours. <br /><br /> Thousands of Rio’s poor took to the streets in outrage th
