UN peacekeeping re-empowered Brazil’s military two years before its era of expansion

Evidence

The armed forces had been re-empowered starting in 2004, when the Brazilian military went to Haiti as part of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and reportedly committed egregious abuses against the local population, especially Haitian women. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 323

Categorization

• QUESTION: Specific documented MINUSTAH abuses against Haitian women worth following for reporting.
• XREF: Connects to reading on how international institutions rehabilitate coercive domestic apparatuses.