The UN celebrated the Day for the Elimination of Torture in November.
But what has Brazil done to punish the military that tortured my grandfather and killed my mother and my uncle? I was 15 years-ol…
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5 December 1975: They Killed My Mother | Brazil Still Has Not Compensated the Families of Victims | The Judiciary is a Joke
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5 December 1975: They Killed My Mother | Brazil Still Has Not Compensated the Families of Victims | The Judiciary is a Joke
Why the Truth Commission did not accomplish anything? The military destroyed documents and menaced, blackmailed, and gaslit the members of the commission. That is why. It was performative justice.
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