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São Paulo, Brazil – March 24th, 2025
1. Aerial of Dom Bosco cemetery where remains which could be of victims of Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964-1985) were found 35 years ago ++MUTE++
2. STILL of monument next to the mass grave at the Dom Bosco cemetery ++MUTE++
3. Mid of monument reading: (Portuguese) "Here the dictators tried to hide the political disappearances, the victims of hunger, the violence of the police state, the death squads and above all the rights of the poor citizens of the city of São Paulo. It is recorded that crimes against freedom will always be discovered."
4. Various of Brazil’s Minister of Human Rights and Citizenship, Macaé Evaristo, alongside relatives of victims of dictatorship
5. Evaristo talking to relative
6. Officials and relatives on stage
7. Audience watching the ceremony
8. Evaristo on stage
9. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Macaé Evaristo, Brazil’s Minister of Human Rights and Citizenship:
“The Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship, on behalf of the Brazilian State, apologizes to the families of those who disappeared politically during the Brazilian military dictatorship that began in 1964.”
10. People applauding
11. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Nilmário Miranda, 77, former Brazilian Minister of Human Rights and Citizenship:
“Any news about the loved ones in the midst of the barbarity that has occurred is important and encouraging. How long has it lasted? We are already in the third generation. The first generation has already left, the second generation is leaving, and we are in the third generation, of grandsons and granddaughters, who will continue until there is justice.”
12. Crimeia Almeida, whose husband, father-in-law and brother-in-law went missing during dictatorship, speaking to media
13. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Crimeia Almeida, 78, family member of disappeared:
“Apologies are only possible when the criminal act, which is disappearance, is finished. For example, all my family members are missing. And many others remain missing, even in the Perus ditch, they have not yet been identified. So the Brazilian government needs to send resources.”
14. Various of afro-Brazilian group Quilombaque performing at ceremony
STORYLINE:
Brazil’s government on Monday apologized to families of victims of the country’s military dictatorship whose remains could be among those found in a clandestine mass grave 35 years ago.
Dozens of families are still waiting to know whether their parents, children, siblings and friends are in one of more than 1,000 blue bags discovered in 1990 in a ditch in a São Paulo cemetery in the isolated district of Perus.
That was the first of many mass graves uncovered by Brazil’s authorities after the end of the 21-year military rule in 1985.
The clandestine grave at the Dom Bosco cemetery also contained remains of several unidentified people who were not linked to the fight against Brazil’s dictatorship.
The official apology is part of a deal between prosecutors, family members and the State.
It took place during Right to Truth Day, which is also celebrated in other countries.
Human Rights minister Macaé Evaristo said the Brazilian State was neglectful in the identification process of the bags and bones found in Perus.
For almost 25 years, the remains were held by three state universities and laboratories outside Brazil, but only a handful of families finally had their loved ones identified.
AP video shot by Maycron Abade and Thiago Mostazo
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