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the military dictatorship

could be done, as the false ®
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opened by the Minister of Justi
filed without having achieved ai

Madame Lima Penna Satamitl
to Pope Paul VI, through Re
Father Colonnese, Director of
tin American Division of the
States Catholic Conference in W*
ton. Mme. Satamini is a profe |
interpreter with USAID, who has
in the United States for 12 yea
is the mother of the geologist el
Arruda, aged 29, who was a
the Sao Paulo police in May 1970.
ter travelling around various of
she ended up at the Ministry oe
Army and was able to see het at

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By M.S.M. bia, Venezuela and all the socialist Federation, the World Federation of her letter to the Pope she says 4
: ; countries — we could go on extending Democratic Youth and other interna- right leg i lyzed. His right &*
OR seven years, since April 1964, the list — the terror that reigns in tional organizations have published paapletcls ciked and his left eye? ; .
Brazil has been under a reaction- Brazil is well known, as a result of pamphlets listing scores and scores of half open. His body is consis
ary military dictatorship. The the testimony of the many victims who the victims of the medieval torture wracked by small convulsions. #7)
rights and guarantees of citizens, have suffered and are suffering brutal methods now being used in Brazil. The difficulty in swallowing (1 havé ay
political, democratic and popular torture in endless interrogations in the International Association of Democra- sulted a neurologist who tells m
institutions, students, _intellec- prisons of the Brazilian military dicta- tic Lawyers, which has already issued these are symptoms of cerebral nee
tuals, the press, radio and tele- torship. a detailed ‘dossier’ of the crimes com- tosis, caused by blows)’. Mme. sill
vision are virtually non-existent. Trade mitted by the political police—civil snidie than ScuRhe legal help to gtr Sh
union organizations are under minis- DOUUNANAUAUOUOUOUOEOEUAEOUOUOUUAOUGEOEOOUOEOEOEOOOUOOEDL and military—in Brazil, will next year inves
terial 1 d Sate hi ie oe y y: son released.. Her letter cont cl
aoe control and watc! Yy Pri T » be organizing an International Confer- lawyers told me that there were © lh
police. risons, Torture and ence on torture, at which proof wil be than 12,000 cases like that of ™Y
Under the presidency of General Assassinations given of the enormous number of peo- The majority of them have bers ot
Garrastazu Medici a strict book cen- ple:tortured in Brazil: away by the police, and the COUN)
sorship has recently been established, HOUKUUROUULOQUUROUEUCHEORNUUREUUOGEOGUUGUEUUEOUEOGEEOUEGE The peasants’ leader, veteran of the not told of. their imprisonment ty
with some works being banned and ; : revolutionary movement, Gregorio Be- required by law.’ Hi
confiscated. Police decrees have abol- = eee the greatest net- zerra, one of the first victims of the al
ished the inviolability of the home, and work of police organizations ever brutal fascist methods introduced into MM ty
the police are constantly armed. Cor- known in Brazil has been created. the country by the military dictatorship, of |
respondence is censored and the right Alongside the former Departments “of has already described in Mexico, Cuba Persecution and Murder™ jh
of free movement no longer exists, with Political and Social Order known as several of the socialist countries the Trade Unionists 4
identity papers being demanded at any DOPS) the different branches of the martyrdom of the Brazilian patriots wil y
time armed forces have organized their in- = who have opposed the dictatorship. MM
i struments of repression — inside the You should have seen the mutilated iol h
Another terror now reigns — mass h : = Fe
terror through the blockade of whole ms 8. < pe Et et = pieoats body of the chemical workers’ trade On April 1, 1964, the trade arf} {M
oe z the naval investigation centre ( i were the favourite targets of af |
districts or towns. The most typical s : : union leader, Olavo Hansen, who died e targ ef
ns. ‘ MAR), and in the air force the police in th - f Sao Paul h and the police who seized POW" ima
example was the’joint operation by the service. The armed forces as a whole pain sb saoreemncie co ae a a a dictatO™y ;
army. and the police on November 4, Ee nt tke nating aervice was thrown after taking part in a pub- set up the reactionary ters o
1970, in the country’s biggest towns. The ce 3 “ag a ee lic May Day demonstration in 1970, They attacked the headqual’. ” fic}
In Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro alone So Vag a Pee ape that of Salvador Tolezano, chairman trade unions, destroyed thé ing mya
: : ; posal the national security police and ’ tole their t i and addine id Ti
beseiged by 30,000 police, 5,000 peo- she national inf, ti : SNI of the Sao Paulo Bank Employees stole their typewriters vip it
eam EN ith e national information service: (SNI), Union, murdered in the street, that of chines, surgical and dental ed") fall
ple were arrested on a single day, wit! created in the first days of the military : : hey could Fi
the aim of intimidating the people. dictatocsliip. thes teat Ro-ovhiich oan the well-known revolutionary Carlos and whatever money they “an "4 f
These have already become routine for several years the present President Maringhela, shot on a Sao Paulo street, They intervened in more “jaiat)
operations, an important part of the SE tha Beiidin® Goueat Garraatim that of the revolutionary journalist trade union organizations, | of \
‘psychological war which is now. well =< : : Mario Alves, who died in the prisons their leaderships, put In ©. iiyilp
Psy 8 Medici, who attended the International : : i i i the majo" “a9
known and the principles of which Palice ‘Wcaieiny in Washington, where of Rio de Janeiro, and of the revolu- nominees, imprisoned nion yea? I
were taught to Brazilian police and he learned the latest methods used by tionary Joaquim Camara Perreiro, cruel- the class-conscious trade UA st ,
military personnel at the International the CIA and the FBI In addition to ail ly murdered in Sao Paulo. Other work- and disbanded, right from and, ogne
Police Academy in Washington, direct- 4; : Bek ers, peasants, students, intellectuals, the Workers’ General Comm@ = lift
this machinery of repression, each State : ‘ h b f the future ig
ed by the CIA and the FBI, where the : : : former soldiers and some ‘unknowns’ was the embryo of the pate”, 14
: see , in the Federation has other police for- : t hich they profoundly (<i! }y
dominant spirit is that of the massacre ces, including well-armed troops. These aie ee nt gate puhatet nod e The, # a ee yok caway ip t
of Song My. : Sale : murdered by the professional bandits y gradually to ers:
Successive military governments ae ee ne of the ‘Squadron of Death’, ‘Operacao had been. gained ‘by the worn ;
have tried to deny these facts, sending ‘Squadron of Death’, ‘Operacao Ban- panpenante aad OnEL Srolpen which aie _ ans ee a ae on
their emissaries abroad and preventing deirante’ in Sao Paulo and other police et Sas their death ‘sentences’ in the dation “th caer ae Taboee C vrai
missions of lawyers and even of inter- : :
national haste Bion coming to Brazil RE eee She government, To this information we should like arable Jobe pies — yeal ie
to find out the truth about the denun- There is widespread denunciation of to add two other undeniable pieces of employment with a firm Cc Neh t
ciations made inside and outside the the dictatorship throughout Brazil and evidence. A member of parliament, Mis. #68 BndS DOr woe (vite
country of the regime of repression, in the majority of capitalist countries, Pedroso Horta, of the Brazilian Demo- agreement; the right to str : acte? r )
torture, the murder of political prison- especially from political prisoners leav- cratic Movement (MDB), who was ly withdrawn by the law parla y
ers, violence -and arbitrary rule. These ing the country. This is what caused Minister of Justice in the government June 1964 by a mutilated | to di at
facts, however, are known and proved ~ the spokesman of the dictatorship, the of Janio Quadros, and was re-elected and the democratic TB ma agen a |
by the testimony of the victims of present Minister of Education and Cul- in the elections of November 15, 1970, pierriah; OF aoe secur ae power ef
its brutal reaction, : ture and former Minister of Labour, has said the following about the death bodies. They removed t Court. Ui :
‘In France, Italy, Belgium, Britain, Colonel Jarbes Passarinho, to state in of Olavo Hansen: ‘A few days ago I decisions from the Labout ages Po
Federal Germany, the United States, the conservative journal O Globo, pub- _—‘received at my parliament office two _also set up the National Wry staf)
Sweden, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Colom. lished in Rio de Janeiro: ‘It would be old people. They asked me with tears Committee, which is pee of Con
:; wrong to say that torture does not in their eyes what they could do to tion wages on the preven t. wit
exist in Brazil’, and adding—‘it would ‘ ing inflation. The real va 35 pet ro
be equally wrong to deny the existence has in this way fallen by an ace? |
of torture in the countries which at- by we ee ee 1 flatio® ei |
tack us, as violence and torture do oe s nee ae yeal Mf
exist in certain prisons. This is the e order of 25 per ce tel
police violence that those of us who have again introduced the a vi
have read Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables ‘ideological attestations , thr eat
all know’. How can we contradict the political police appoint pich af!
Colonel Jarbes Passarinho, one of the of ie age union organizes 30 vi
props of the military dictatorship since subjected to control by an the “ay |
April 1964? : bodies in flagrant violate ele ©
Proof of torture, of crimes against vereally pcknowledeeae at |
political prisoners ‘is known a over ASR te See eee 1eader yt :
’ : 1
the world, if only through what the Sens sais pipes sh is |
victims themselves in exile have relate Th ; trade ¥ : yi {
: s : : e prisons are full of tra’ po ..
ed, in Mexico, Algeria, Chile and else- D f milita st
where, and whose bodies are covered OPEN SIE OaS ee e, The ut? | |
aie = a : enquiries are taking plac® — cov,
with scars and mutilations. Priests tences passed’ by: the military mem |
have informed Pope Paul VI. News- er a rs imprison Ge Tt
papers throughout the world, the capi- Riche i ates if pees: to) wee
talist as well as the socialist press, eral Pontadereune of Labour 4M ne Mh
have published terrible. revelations. ber of the Governing Body ee ct
Men, women, youngsters and children : anizaur” meh’ |
have spent hours of terror being inter- : see eshte eae oan impriso” (
Baie] rogated in the prisons of the Brazilian eee This sentence cee reduced, bu e ee
_ E < military dictatorship. LUIS CARLOS PRESTES, hes had tanned: fhe senten® anol
5,000 people were arrested in a single The International Union of Students, veteran leader of the Communist condemned to two years “ ontel

day last year. the Women’s International Democratic Party of Brazil. trial. Other trade unionists

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