Between Truth and Amnesia: State Terrorism, Human Rights Violations and Transitional Justice in Brazil/Entre la verdad y la amnesia. Terrorismo de Estado, violaciones de derechos humanos y justicia transicional en Brasil

[...]the state should avoid such a personal mechanism and refrain from passing an amnesty law and exempting offenders from legal prosecution, as state forgiveness often equals official amnesia. According to Arns (1985, 86), most of the dissidents came from the urban area and over half of them had an...

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Published in:European review of Latin American and Caribbean studies 2013-04 (94), p.83
Main Author: Goes, Iasmin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accountability
Amnesia
Amnesties
Authoritarianism
Human rights
Justice
Memory disorders
Murders & murder attempts
Reparations
Terrorism
Transitional justice
Truth
Violations
Violence
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Summary:[...]the state should avoid such a personal mechanism and refrain from passing an amnesty law and exempting offenders from legal prosecution, as state forgiveness often equals official amnesia. According to Arns (1985, 86), most of the dissidents came from the urban area and over half of them had an academic degree, a remarkable statistic for a country where, at the time, only 1 per cent of the general population attended university. According to this law, citizens and members of the Commission may not be denied information that concerns basic rights or human rights violations. The new death certificate will state the following: 'The death resulted from injuries and mistreatment in the building of the Second Army in São Paulo (DOICODI)' (Geraque 2012; my translation). Since November 2012, a working group of the Commission is investigating human rights violations committed against land workers and indigenous people.
ISSN:0924-0608
1879-4750