More than one hundred families of victims of the coup were treated this Wednesday (8), at the USP Law School, in the center of São Paulo, with corrected death certificates attesting to violence and death committed by the Brazilian State after the 1964 coup.
Of the total, 63 were actually handed over to family members who attended the event, according to the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship.
Relatives of people whose certificate had already been corrected by the State also participated in the ceremony, such as the relatives of , a deputy elected in 1962, kidnapped and killed by military personnel, and of journalist Vladimir Herzog.
In January, for the record, violent death caused in the context of systematic persecution. In 1996, the politician’s widow, Eunice Paiva, acknowledged that he had disappeared since 1971, the year in which he died under torture.
Vladimir Herzog was murdered in 1975 on the premises of DOI-Codi (Information Operations Detachment — Internal Defense Operations Center) of the II Army, but the military released the official version at the time that he had committed suicide by hanging.
The farce was dismantled based on testimonies from doctors and witnesses, and the Union was condemned for the journalist’s death in 1978. In 2013, Herzog’s death certificate was delivered to the family stating that the death, instead of being caused by hanging, resulted from injuries and ill-treatment.
According to the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship, although Herzog’s certificate had already changed in 2013, the new correction will be more precise.
“At that moment, the cause of death began to be listed in a generic way, based on Law No. 9,140/95, which recognizes the political dead and missing under the responsibility of the State”, informed the ministry through the advisory.
“Now, the new correction brings clearer and more direct wording, expressly recognizing that it was an ‘unnatural, violent death, caused by the State in the context of the systematic persecution of the population identified as political dissidents in the dictatorial regime established in 1964′”.
Paiva’s certificate, quickly rectified in January according to Eugênia Augusta Fávero, president of CEMDP (Special Commission on Political Deaths and Disappearances), will now also better adapt to the standard defined for all victims, respecting the determination of the CNJ (National Council of Justice). The measure is one of the recommendations of the CNV (National Truth Commission).
“This new model is being applied to all certificates of the dead and missing recognized by the State, as a way of definitively correcting the records and recognizing, in a more transparent way, the State’s responsibility for deaths during the war”, according to the Ministry of Human Rights.
Taking place in the Noble Hall of the USP Faculty of Law, this is the second ceremony of its kind promoted by CEMDP, which is linked to the ministry.
The place was packed with family members and guests, who spoke about the need to repair the truth. They drew parallels between the 1964 dictatorship and the coup attempt led by former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL), with requests against a possible amnesty given to those convicted by the STF (Supreme Federal Court).
The Minister of Human Rights, Macaé Evaristo, called the ceremony a “moment of rewriting our history from memory”. She stated that it is important to remember the 1964 coup so that it does not happen again and spoke of authoritarianism in the Bolsonaro administration.
Vera Paiva, daughter of Rubens Paiva and advisor to CEMDP, spoke of the importance of strengthening the demand for official apologies from the State and continuing actions to preserve memory and the truth about the past. “So that it never happens again, we need you not to forget,” he said.
His brother, , and Maria Marighella, granddaughter of the guerrilla Carlos Marighella, as well as Ivo Herzog, son of Vladimir Herzog, also attended. He spoke in honor of his mother, Clarice Herzog, and former president Dilma Rousseff (PT), tortured during the dictatorship and responsible for setting up the National Truth Commission.
In the first ceremony, which took place in August, 63 corrected death certificates were ready to be granted. Of these, 21 were actually handed over to family members who were present to receive them.
The objective is to preserve the memory of the victims and the truth about the period of the military dictatorship (1964-1985) in Brazil. According to the National Truth Commission, 434 people were victims of the State in the period from 1946 to 1988.
According to historians, however, the figure does not include the real number of victims, which tends to be much higher, since the Commission itself recognizes more than 8,000 deaths of indigenous people linked to the period.
See victims whose certificates were ready to be delivered this Wednesday:
- Alex de Paula Xavier Pereira
- Alexander José Ibsen Voerões
- Alexandre Vannucchi Leme
- Ana Maria Nacinovic
- Ana Rosa Kucinski Silva
- André Grabois
- Angelo Arroyo
- Antonio Benetazzo
- Antonio dos Três Reis de Oliveira
- Antônio Guilherme Ribeiro Ribas
- Antonio Raymundo de Lucena
- Antônio Sérgio de Mattos
- Arno Price
- Aurora Maria Nascimento Furtado
- Carlos Marighella
- Carlos Nicolau Danielli
- Catarina Helena Abi-Eçab
- Dennis Casemiro
- Devanir José de Carvalho
- Dorival Ferreira
- Edgar de Aquino Duarte
- Eduardo Collen Leite
- Emmanuel Bezerra dos Santos
- Feliciano Eugenio Neto
- Fernando Borges by Paula Ferreira
- Flavio Carvalho Molina
- Francisco Emanuel Penteado
- Francisco José de Oliveira
- Francisco Seiko Okama
- Frederico Eduardo Mayr
- Gastone Lúcia de Carvalho Beltrão
- Gelson Reicher
- Grenaldo de Jesus Silva
- Helenira Resende de Souza Nazareth
- Heleny Ferreira Telles Guariba
- Hiram de Lima Pereira
- Torigoe Hype
- Iêda Santos Delgado
- Issami Nakamura Okano
- Iuri Xavier Pereira
- Izis Dias de Oliveira
- Jaime Petit da Silva
- João Antônio Santos Abi-Eçab
- João Carlos Cavalcanti Reis
- João Domingos da Silva
- Joaquim Alencar de Seixas
- Joaquim Câmara Ferreira
- José Ferreira de Almeida
- José Guimarães
- José Idésio Brianezi
- Jose Lavecchia
- José Maria Ferreira de Araújo
- José Maximino de Andrade Netto
- José Milton Barbosa
- José Montenegro de Lima
- José Roberto Arantes de Almeida
- Jose Roman
- José Wilson Lessa Sabbag
- Lauriberto Jose Reyes
- Lúcio Petit da Silva
- Luisa Augusta Garlippe
- Luiz Almeida Araújo
- Luiz Eduardo da Rocha Merlino
- Luiz Eurico Tejera Lisbon
- Luiz Fogaça Balboni
- Luiz Hirata
- Luiz José da Cunha
- Manoel Fiel Filho
- Manoel José Mendes Nunes Abreu
- Manoel José Nurchis
- Manoel Lisbôa de Moura
- Márcio Beck Machado
- Marco Antônio Dias Baptista
- Marcos Antônio Bráz de Carvalho
- Marcos Nonato da Fonseca
- Maria Augusta Thomaz
- Maria Lúcia Petit da Silva
- Miguel Sabat Nuet
- Neide Alves dos Santos
- Nestor Vera
- Norberto Nehiring
- Olaf Hanssen
- Onofre Pinto
- Paulo Guerra Tavares
- Paulo Stuart Wright
- Raimundo Eduardo da Silva
- Roberto Cietto
- Roberto Macarini
- Ronaldo Mouth Queiroz
- Rubens Beyrodt Paiva
- Rui Osvaldo Aguiar Pfützenreuter
- Ruy Carlos Vieira Berbert
- Santo Dias da Silva
- Solange Lourenço Gomes
- Sônia Maria de Moraes Angel Jones
- Suely Yumiko Kanayama
- Virgílio Gomes da Silva
- Victor Carlos Ramos
- Vladimir Herzog
- Walter de Souza Ribeiro
- Yoshitane Fujimori
- Zoe Lucas de Brito Filho
