A tortura em questão: a disputa de memórias entre militares e militantes

• Autor(a) principal: Tamas, Elisabete Fernandes Basilio
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13201
• topic: Ditadura Militar; Memoria -- Aspectos politicos -- Brasil; Militares -- Brasil -- Atividades politicas; Tortura -- Brasil -- Historia; Brasil -- Politica e governo -- 1964-1985; Torture; Memory; Military Dictatorship; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

The humanity has been registering the use of torture for a long time in history like a sort of punishment or to obtain information. The violence of the representatives of the State against the suspects of committing crimes is a reality which has been traveling around the centuries. Important philosophers from the Enlightenment age fought off the use of torture, and the advance of modern societies carried its progressive legal elimination. Since the end of the Second World War, in repudiation against the atrocities committed by the Nazi, international treaties have been trying to protect the humanity against torture. In Brazil the history of human rights is intimately linked to the military dictatorship. The tortures used in an institutionalized way were denounced by political prisoners and by their relatives during all the military period, fact that contributed a lot to the use of censorship. From the middle of the 1970 s , with a political opening beginning and letting a slack of censorship, a debate of memories started between the soldiers and the political activists about this subject that had been hidden for the majority of Brazilian people so far. The memories, while an exercise of reconstruction of the past from the present, showed the issues which involved them throughout the last forty years. Among the soldiers, although the internal disputes have been registered, mainly between the moderates and the tough ones, what marked the accounts about the use of torture against political prisoners were the changes throughout the time, with the dominance of the sequence: denial, subordinates fault, the States blame. Among the militants, the divergences among the several groups are more plural; dozens of organizations on the left were formed, each one following different ideological conceptions and sometimes conflicting among them. The convergence among the people who wrote the memories conflicted with the official versions, and in the course of time, it s been presenting the matters which involved them since then: denunciation of the tortures suffered; fighting for amnesty; recognition of the State; receipts of indemnity; individual torturers blame. Thus, the dispute for the registered words through the published memories in books is intimately linked to the permanent fight between the two groups which confronted each other at the end of the1960 s and the beginning of the1970 s