Nicola Gardner · April, 2011

Latest posts by Nicola Gardner from April, 2011

Brazil: School Bullying and the Realengo Massacre

  28 April 2011

On 7 April 2011, twelve adolescents at the Tasso da Silveira City School in the west of Rio de Janeiro were shot dead. The culprit was ex-pupil, Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, 23, who then turned the gun on himself. The growing speculation about the killer’s profile, in both the blogosphere and traditional media, raised the issue of bullying in Brazilian society.