The Ministry of Officially recognized on Monday (24) the negligence of the federal government in the guard and identification of the bones of the Dom Bosco cemetery, in the northern region of São Paulo.
The minister led, in the cemetery, a ceremony with the family members of the dead and missing political during the military (1964-1985).
Negligence in conducting identification work, according to the federal government, occurred between 1990 and 2014.
“The right to truth is an inalienable right that establishes duties that have to be taken very seriously by the State: the duty to protect and guarantee human rights, the duty to conduct effective investigations and the duty to guarantee reparations,” said the minister.
The clandestine ditch, illegally used in the 1970s to bury indigente and missing politicians, was opened in September 1990. 1,049 boxes with human remnants were found – 41 bones would be opponents to dictatorship.
Initially, the remains were taken to (State University of Campinas) and UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais).
In the apology, Macaé cited complaints about precarious storage conditions, which led the government to transfer the bones to the IML (Medical Institute) of São Paulo and, after public civil action filed by the Federal, to the Center for Anthropology and Forensic Archeology of Unifesp (Federal University of São Paulo).
In 2014, UNIFESP created the Perus Working Group, responsible for cleaning human remnants, anthropological analysis and collection of bone samples for genetic examinations. In April 2019, during the Bolsonaro government,
Last year a new technical cooperation agreement of the Ministry of Human Rights was signed with UNIFESP and the Municipal Secretariat of Human Rights for the resumption of the group, with funding from UNDP (United Nations Development Program).
To date, 35 years after the opening of the ditch, only five missing politicians – Denis Casemiro (1991), Frederico Eduardo Mayr (1992), Flávio Carvalho Molina (2005), Dimas Antonio Casemiro (2018) and Aluísio Palhano Pedreira Ferreira (2018).
“I spent all this time sharing my time between work, the search for Flavio and the family. It is very difficult and generates anguish. I expected it to end, but it will never end,” said Gilberto Molina, brother of Flávio Molina, during the apology ceremony.
Flávio joined (national liberating action) and Molipo (Popular Liberation Movement). He died after being arrested in Sao Paulo, under torture. After identification, the remains were transferred to the São João Batista Cemetery in Rio de Janeiro, where he was born.
Worker in São Bernardo do Campo, Dennis Casemiro acted in the VPR (Revolutionary Popular Vanguard) and was arrested in a lawsuit led by the delegate in testimonies, political prisoners said he died under torture in 1971. The remains were taken to Votuporanga in August 1991.
Also Aln militant, Frederico Eduardo Mayr was killed in Sao Paulo, after being arrested and buried clandestinely in the Perus Cemetery. After identification, the bone was taken to the family grave at the English Cemetery in Rio.
Accused by dictatorship security agencies of commanding the murder of the industrialist, Dimas Antonio Casemiro would have died in 1971, under torture. He was the brother of Dênis and had the remains buried in Votuporanga in 2018, 47 years after death.
Unionist and militant of the VPR, Aluísio Palhano Pedreira Ferreira also died in 1971, after torture sessions. His bone was handed over to the family.
