E/CN.4/1996/72/Add.1 page 24 9/ The "terreiro" is a place of worship serving an area roughly corresponding to a parish, according to Mr. Edson Lopes Cardoso, member of the Movimento Negro Unificado (discussion of 8 June 1995). 10/ The reference is to King Don Joao VI of Portugal who took refuge in Brazil following the occupation of his country by the armies of Napoleon. 11/ According to Mr. Euzébio Cardoso, Vice-President of the Olodum Cultural Association during a discussion on 12 June in Salvador da Bahia. 12/ During the period of slavery, revolts by African slaves were numerous, violent and organized, and fugitive Blacks organized independent communities, the quilombos, which were in some cases very long-lasting and were put down only after full-scale wars. Such was the case of the most famous of these communities, the Quilombo do Palmares, in the State of Alagoas, which kept its independence for 100 years before being destroyed. 13/ This was a legacy of Catholic theology which, as early as the sixteenth century, declared Blacks, Indians, people of mixed parentage, and also Jews, to be impure races. It must also be recalled that the first purpose of inter-breeding was not to achieve racial fusion but to increase the number of slaves at the disposal of an owner. On this subject see Maria Luiza T. Carneiro, O racismo na historia do Brasil. Mito e realidade, São Paulo, Editora Atica, 1994, p. 11. 14/ Discussion with Mr. Hernani Da Silva, of the Sociedade Cultural Missoes Quilombo, on 15 June in São Paolo. 15/ One only has to look at the Brazilian television channels and advertisement posters to realize that Blacks do not figure in the broadcasting and advertising media, except in football matches and variety programmes. 16/ Discussion with Mr. Joel Rufino dos Santos, Director of the Palmares Cultural Foundation, on 8 June 1995. 17/ Secretaria de justiça e direitos humanos, Conselho de Desenvolvimento da Comunidade Negra, A Lei e o Dierito Do Negro, vol. I, Salvador, November 1994. 18/ The facts are recounted in greater detail in the Jornal do Sindpol, the newspaper of the Civilian Police Public Service Union of the State of Pará, 3 January 1995. The Special Rapporteur also spoke to the victim to obtain confirmation of the facts. 19/ See the article entitled "Ruth critica modelo educacional", A Tarde, 14 June 1995.