The Ministry of Launched a publication that mapped 49 places used for torture and political repression during the initiative released in.
The book “Places of Memory of the Military Dictatorship” documented spaces that were opposed to the dictatorship and resistance of militants. The work is part of the Memory and Truth section of the National Human Rights Observatory, a platform that brings together human rights indicators in the country.
There are 17 places in the Southeast, 15 in the Northeast, 7 in the South, 6 in the North and 4 in the Midwest. São Paulo (7), Pernambuco (6) and Rio de Janeiro (5) concentrate most of the mapped spaces, including barracks, cemeteries, arrests, hospitals, parks and universities.
Among these places are, which housed one of the main organs of repression of the military regime. Today, space has become the resistance memorial, dedicated to the preservation of memory.
There is also, which worked in the first half of the 1970s as the clandestine center of torture led by the Army Information Center. About 20 political prisoners would have passed, of which only the former Var-Palmares leader. The place will become a memorial dedicated to the preservation of memory and the valorization of democracy, according to the Ministry of Human Rights.
In Recife (PE), the Historical Space Maping was the former headquarters of Dops, one of the main repression centers in the Northeast. There, opponents of the dictatorship were questioned and tortured.
The Paraná River, in Foz do Iguaçu (PR), recorded forced disappearances, clandestine transfers of prisoners, including within the scope, which sought the exchange of intelligence information and persecution of enemies.
Paula Franco, General Coordinator of Ministry’s Memory and Truth Policies, highlights the importance of these spaces for the construction of collective memory and the strengthening of democracy. “These are places that keep sensitive memories, of traumatic and violent achievements, but also of resistant experiences,” he says.
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