Pillars of Shame.

• Position: 'Pillar of Shame' sculptures protest crimes against humanity - Brief Article

Belem, Brazil

On May 1 in Belem, Danish sculptor Jens Galschiot finished work on his third Pillar of Shame. The eight-foot obelisk of entwined bodies commemorated the massacre of nineteen landless Brazilian peasants by military police on April 17, 1996. Last May, Galschiot also erected a pillar in the village of Acteal in Chiapas, Mexico, where forty-five unarmed indigenous people were killed by a paramilitary group on December 22, 1991. Galschiot...