The Amnesty Commission held, this Thursday (30), the first public session of 2023, after recomposing the structure of the collegiate, in January of this year. The commission is made up of 16 members. This session was part of the Never Again Week – Restored Memory, Living Democracy. At the opening of the session, the special advisor for the Defense of Democracy, Memory and Truth of the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship, Nilmário Miranda, welcomed the reappointed commission members and the seven new advisors. “Today is a historic day for the Amnesty Commission to return. She was disrespected by people against the amnesty and in favor of the dictatorship. The opposite of what it should be. They tried to destroy, discredit this commission, ”he criticized. The Minister of Human Rights and Citizenship, Silvio Almeida, emphasized that the military dictatorship interrupted a process of reduction in Brazilian inequalities until the present day. “How many Brazilians could have been saved from ignorance, disease and abandonment if it weren’t for the exclusionary policies of the Brazilian dictatorship?”, he questioned. Minister Silvio Almeida participates in the first public session of the year of the Amnesty Commission, after recomposing the structure of the collegiate – Reproduction YouTube/MDHC The minister makes a connection between facts such as slavery and repression and the evils of contemporary Brazilian society; “Inequalities, state violence, machismo, racism, homotransphobia, the unacceptable number of poor and black youths murdered today in Brazil are, I repeat, inseparable from the ways in which it was built and how we tell this story”, he associated. This Thursday, the eve of the anniversary of the 1964 military coup, Silvio Almeida also celebrated the restitution of another group: the Special Commission on Political Deaths and Disappearances, which will be reestablished by means of a presidential decree to be published in the coming days. The minister also assured that the resumption of work by the new Amnesty Commission will not represent revanchism. “A new phase of this country’s restoration of memory, truth and justice has, today, a milestone in this first emblematic plenary session. Some see these initiatives as revanchisms or even attempts to divide the Brazilian nation. I would say it’s just the opposite! No nation has been built or held together without looking at its fractures and mending them.” Upon her return to the commission, counselor Ana Maria Lima de Oliveira, with 15 years of experience on the board, said that “if Brazil had told its true story of violations and democratic rupture and had come clean with its dictatorial past, this moment would not have the weight of this meaning”. Ana Maria cited the fragility of Brazilian democracy. “Our political culture is authoritarian and undemocratic. And our democracy is young. It is not consolidated. It needs care and vigilance”. The path, for the commission’s oldest adviser, goes through education on human rights from high school classrooms to public safety training schools for the non-repetition of crimes. She also cited the resumption of Amnesty caravans, construction of memory spaces and museums of crimes committed, truth telling and repair of the moral, social, psychic memory of the persecuted, as well as the action of Justice, with punishment of human rights violators. , torturers and murderers. The president of the National Human Rights Council (CNDH), André Carneiro Leão, understands that Brazil needs to complete the transitional justice, through memory and truth, with the investigation and accountability of agents and institutions that violated human rights during the dictatorial period . “We cannot accept the process of collective amnesia and a process of forgetting that allows us to arrive at what we observed on January 8, 2023”, he said, referring to the vandalization of the headquarters of the Three Powers, in Brasília. “The flesh will tremble, the blood will boil, because they are painful, suffering processes, but they need to come to the fore so that this process of transitional justice can be concluded.” The president of the Commission on Human Rights, Minorities and Racial Equality of the Chamber of Deputies, deputy Luizianne Lins (PT-CE), stated that the dictatorship will not be forgotten. “We will once again uncover the dark past so as not to repeat mistakes in the future.” Revision of rejected requests At the beginning of the works, the president of the Amnesty Commission, Eneá de Stutz e Almeida, considered that the first session represents “a rebirth”. “We resisted and we survived”. The commission plans to review more than 4,000 requests denied in recent years and repair the re-victimization of politically persecuted people during the dictatorial period (1964 to 1985). In this first meeting, the counselors analyzed evidence of political persecution in the review of four amnesty and damage repair processes. The applicants who declared themselves persecuted by the military dictatorship are Romário Cezar Schettino, Claudia de Arruda Campos, José Pedro da Silva and Ivan Valente. In the first process analyzed, counselor Rita Maria Rita Maria Miranda Sipahi reported the case of Romário Cezar Schettino, who claims to have been removed from his duties as a banker and university student. In 1973, he was kidnapped and arrested, then exiled from 1974 to 1976. As a result, the current advisors of the Amnesty Commission upheld Romário’s request, and the Amnesty Commission established the continued permanent monthly remuneration in the amount of R$ 2,718, 73, with retroactive financial effects in the amount of BRL 828 thousand. The president of the Amnesty Commission even apologized to him, on behalf of the Brazilian State. The second process analyzed was from professor Claudia de Arruda Campos and was reported by counselor Ana Maria Lima de Oliveira. In the previous decision, there was a refusal to repair damages to the teacher, who, in 1968, as a university student, lived in hiding so as not to suffer further persecution, which would have delayed her academic and professional life until the period of re-democratization in Brazil, when applicant resumed union activities. Professor Claudia de Arruda Campos, present at the meeting, was recognized as an amnesty Brazilian politician by the counselors. Deputy Ivan Valente had a request for amnesty that had been denied – Reproduction YouTube/MDHC The third request for review was from federal deputy Ivan Valente (PSOL-SP) on the request for political amnesty denied by the governments of then-presidents Michel Temer and Jair Bolsonaro . The reporting councilor, Manoel Severino Moraes de Almeida, also considered Ivan Valente’s claim for compensation for having been persecuted for his political trajectory when he was a mathematics teacher in São Paulo, and for having to flee to survive, distancing himself from his family, friends and delays in professional life. The rapporteur was followed by all the other directors. In this Thursday’s session, congressman Ivan Valente defended his arguments in a speech to counselors. “The dictatorship’s 21 years of lead and the four-year retrogression of civilization now prove to everyone that they fight for democracy, that they fight for the rights of the people, that history is not linear and that danger is all around us. Fascism left roots, planted roots that need to be faced.”. The last case judged by the commission was that of José Pedro da Silva, who asked for the review of the previous negative decision to be considered political amnesty, with compensation through compensation. The process was reported by counselor Virginius José Lianza da Franca, who analyzed the evidence that José Pedro had been fired, arrested and prevented from exercising union leadership during the military dictatorship. The rapporteur understood that the request should be granted, and his vote was accompanied by the other members of the commission. Present at the session, José Pedro da Silva heard the apology on behalf of the Brazilian State and recalled the period in which he was a member of a communist party, of pastoral workers and a striker in the metallurgy sector, in São Paulo. “The little we have today comes from the awareness that the worker has been acquiring”. Silva celebrated the recognition as an amnestied. “I was denied my reparation, which is not just for me. That [conquista] it is for me, my family, for my friends and, more than that, it is the political issue. They made a mistake with the Brazilian working people, on behalf of the elites. Therefore, may we have the strength to bring those who kidnapped, tortured, killed, raped to the courts. This has to end.”
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