General Julio Cesar de Arruda: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has sacked the country’s army chief, Julio Cesar de Arude, two weeks after riots in the capital Brasilia. General Julio Cesar de Arruda took over as the Army Chief of Brazil on 30 December, just before the end of the term of the country’s former President Jair Bolsonaro.
President Lula da Silva has said that he suspects that people from the armed forces had colluded with the protesters. Apart from this, President Lula has dismissed dozens of military officers in recent days after the riots in Brasilia.
Riots broke out in Brazil
Let us tell you that the supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, refusing to accept their electoral defeat, stormed the Supreme Court, Parliament and the Presidential Palace of Brazil. During this, the supporters of Bolsonaro broke the security cordons made by the Brazilian Army.
Supporters of Bolsonaro raged
In fact, leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has become the President in Brazil and neither former President Jair Bolsonaro nor his supporters accept it. Lula, who was president from January 2003 to December 2010, defeated Bolsonaro in the election held on 31 October 2022. Riots broke out in the country a week after his swearing-in.
2,000 people in custody
Several police officers were injured in the violence. The rioters forcibly entered the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the Congress and the Supreme Court and ransacked there. Not only this, the supporters of Bolsonaro also stole government weapons. Brazilian police reported that approximately 2,000 people were detained, and approximately 1,200 remain under arrest.
In place of General Arruda, General Tomás Ribeiro Paiva, a military commander close to President Lula, is being made the country’s army chief. Earlier this week, he urged the soldiers to accept the result of the presidential election.
