MAAFA: DEATH POLICIES IN THE CONTEXT OF HIGH INTENSITY RACIAL WAR IN CONTEMPORARY BAHIA
High Intensity Racial War, Death Policies, Black Genocide, Pact for Life Program.
aking as a backdrop the criminal statistics referring to Public Security in Brazil, this thesis aims to carry out a multidisciplinary and multifocal investigation on necropolitical devices (MBEMBE, 2018) in Public Security in Bahia, within the context of implementation and branching of the Pact for Life Program. Our ambition here is to fill the gaps in the studies on Public Security, and the implementation-branching of the Pacto Pela Vida Program, which has shown a tendency to make the racially selective character of public security policies invisible (ZAVERUCHA, 2005, SOUZA, 2014, MARTINS & Lourenço, 2014). The resumption of the institutional history and critical analysis of the organizational structure of the Pacto Pela Vida Program revealed that the high investments in armaments, ammunition, ostensive policing and qualified repression, did not stop the killing in progress, on the contrary, the techniques were improved and intensified in their Lethality. More than that, we argue that the staggering numbers of violent deaths committed by firearms on the streets of Bahia are fragments of a national reality of Anti-Black Genocide (VARGAS, 20017), described by the State as “War on drugs”, and by some researchers such as Estado de Sitio (AGAMBEM, 2004) or Civil War of New Type (MIR, 2004). Still here, we reveal that the peculiar type of widespread violence that characterizes the patterns of death in Bahia in the last decade are best described by the notion of: High Intensity Racial War.