you would forgive the torturer of your
parents
a man who beat his father for days
in one room only had a chair that in
certain moment made a move
macabre to command a Russian roulette with
screams and shoots one two three times
you would forgive the man who put your
mother in a dark room with a jiboia with
cruelly to take all
her clothing leaving an animal naked for
an indefinite time
you would forgive the man that even being
friend of your parents
the trail and it took them this time of pain and
suffering
these were some of the issues that
chased after deciding to go after the
my family’s story
due to the military dictatorship and today I go
tell a little of this story to
You my parents separated had
was four years old and had never
image of the two together as well as couple
you see
it was as if I was instigated by my
Curiosity I need to know how these
two started how these two stayed
together I could never imagine is that
I discovered a story so intense
mixed military regime here in the
Brazil
that’s why you have small children
they are thinking of separating care
can through the history of
You are my part of the story.
begins in 1989 at the age of 12 years of my
father called me to a solemn conversation
at least for me it seemed so solemn
he told me that he and my mother had
been arrested in the dictatorship the word torture
for me the worst of the nouns was not
mentioned that day but he revealed
that they were only arrested because the man
What did you call to participate in a party?
clandestine against the dictatorship who
was the leader the boss commented
the trail delivering their name
military without having suffered no problems
was a suspected leader who became a traitor
this man is a great man was
He who gave the name to my parents
for the purpose of combating the dictatorship and
my father the journalist marcelo netto
it was called matheus matheus was
The moment my name was born, it was ready.
history caught me once when he
told me that nothing caught me but the
removed more but let’s go back in time
My parents were arrested in December
1972 and were taken to the 38th
battalion of infantry in victory in
holy spirit where they were tortured
they had never taken up arms in the
fight against the dictatorship is
It is important to say that no one there
victory took up arms against the
dictatorship
their actions against the regime had
been making panfletagens graffiti
meetings student strikes
theater with classic castro verses
alves
my search for this régis rapporteur
of saints is their name
of my life not even know
he had done nothing against me he did not
did nothing directly to me and my
parents
It hurt me in some way like I did.
It was like I needed to know why
my mother the journalist miriam pig
she was tortured pregnant at age 19
because of this betrayal I had anger
sometimes when I was younger I
I cried, I want to tell you that
I thought about it and when I stayed
older
I will become a journalist coincidentally or
not in the area of human rights in
dictatorship
I discovered that the denunciation of the Fed
fred’s betrayal does not influence the
family she had the edge of history
of Brazil
more than 30 people were arrested by
account of the delation some died as
the former federal deputy lincon lamb
west to turn a story
Long a short 25 years later will me
count on full betrayal
The landing in victory brings a clue
saturday fred he had a virtue he
disappeared no one has ever encountered him
and I went to the address I got there
he was not there but the locals
tell some stories
including conflict
in a nutshell he was not
a good neighbor and he sends me the
interior of Brazil in a rural area and
they said look probably there you
will find on a site in some
moments of our life we need
Friends, I was so lucky.
Eduard the documentary filmmaker who went with me
I was even in the mood
but you know that finding a site
in a large rural area of the
Brazil
we have to knock from door to door
from door to door from door to door
no kidding we were about 50
people and even so the thing ran away a
little of my control
fled from what I had dreamed of
planned
the scene felt the sun was setting the
near the headquarters of the Fed is in the
fire and me and Eduardo coming near the
His house and I talking to Eduardo more
we will reach 40 years after the
betrayal of the face
at night to ask these questions
Guys, we’re going to do it.
I arrived and I asked all the questions that
I wanted to do
including the most important, but the
job does not always make the man do his
marcel farm always clean the marcelo
is was part of the power but delivered on
half of him I had that in the end was
written but not
is not only the codename presence also
the matthew is marcelo reached by the
moment of a mile moment history
never close that wants to download the
fuck where one day and the next he
He gave me these conditions
after the moment, I think about this
conversation when I asked him if he
he had preferred his accuser than
A hero, he almost pushes me out of the house.
an inexplicable country has taken over
of this blue-walled house and he
decided to admit everything, not only that I have
my parents but who delivered several
young people who led people to
death that carried this burden to life
whole stigma of a pardon says
to take this request for forgiveness to the
my parents
It knows everything has changed after not that I
I agreed to the account with the
things he was saying but he was
as if his story for the first time
For me, the beginning of the middle and the
when I left his house I realized
that I had a link a bond with Fred
I had transformed the bearer of the
request for his forgiveness for an entire
generation something I never imagined
when I started this search
the conam
all right
foot
stay with him find a friend told me
said he now admitted tite asked
pardon
I took this apology to
all those six political prisoners
they said mateus look what he did not
have forgiveness
others said mateus who never missed
I forgive another, said mateus
I forgive but I do not want to live with this
human being rest of my life my
Mom told me she needed some time.
after a few months I came to
to say that he had forgiven
My father is preparing the request for
forgiveness to this day but what is
the forgiveness
the French, since he must give it to him
treats even what is considered
unforgivable for him to forgive is not
forget but have lived the memory of the
evil committed to philosopher hannah arendt
says it’s not necessary, it’s not
necessarily excuse any act
but reconcile with the world in the
What were these things possible?
including torture German Theodor
adorno says that this thing of elaborating the
past has not been taken seriously.
that we want to forget if possible
Memory scratching the world had a great
example is related to forgiveness in
last decades
nelson mandela was imprisoned 27 years in a
cell is just when he left
motivated by forgiveness for the dialogue he
led the reconciliation of his people
I’ve been thinking a lot about forgiveness.
including biblical texts such as
story of Joseph who is betrayed by
siblings sold as a slave and many
years later he finds the strength to
forgive them in another circumstance
maybe the pardon is that there has been
memory of evil committed more in peace
The problem of Brazil, Brazil decided
deny unlike countries like
South Africa decided to risk
memory even admits that these
things happen
the story of my family ‘s smallest
She is less important and I do not speak
Keep your mouth out
the pain of the family of those who died
the pain of the family of those who never
they buried their loved ones
even to this day is much greater than
on my screen
My parents, they went deep.
marked and undeniable but they
survived and even in stories
smaller like us
some answers are linked
I asked to enter the place where my
parents were arrested and tortured in the
was refused to ask to enter another
where my father was placed in the
following circumstances
notes a lonely without the right to
sunbathing
night night off day for those
offer was denied
I asked to have access to the newsletter
internal document, a specific document
records entry of all military personnel
who entered the barracks where they were
healed
I asked to know if three soldiers
specific
entered the bulletin were registered
foot
they said that the document bore
Personal information denied me
even with the law of access to
information even so long after
I started this talk asking you.
pardon the torturer of his parents a
the Brazilian state does not want this
discussion is carried out.
I’ve been face to face with torturer
of my parents
one of them because I decided to make a
my personal investigation
own account and even with all the
evidence suggesting an investigation
he denied that he was there
document the internal bulletin he would do
ample proof of his entry into the site but
remains far from the public eye this
document remains far from the look of
families
when you get what happened when you deny
the documents of the families the state
Brazilian prevents one day from knowing
forgiveness can be elaborated in the
as it has to be with all
table information is undeniable.
importance of the armed forces knows
are they now in places
we were this continental country keeping
our borders are the ones that come
help us when the acute attacks of
security to reach our cities
this has happened they recurrently
which recently occurred in the crisis
penitentiary but they erred
profoundly during the military dictatorship
the barracks were built to
protect others not to torture
kill and hide the prisoner’s corpse
political an apology
the request for forgiveness that never happened
it is essential for us to
maybe one day
close a chapter of our story
You know I do not pretend to speak
that for all the children of former prisoners
Brazilian politicians
But I’ve been told that I ‘m already the
second generation waiting for this request
of apologies that my children did not
have to wait for the request for
Excuses for various countries have passed
by situations of internal conflicts
caused by left-wing governments or
right-wing
the difference how each deals with
its sequels after Brazil resolved
deny at the end of this walk
I’m sitting on a bench
waiting for a person that I wanted
open dialogue bank knows the
forgiveness it can be granted it can
be denied it can be elaborated by
for many years is a personal decision but
it can only be built through the
dialogue a dialogue that for me still
Missing happening in Brazil
That’s what I learned in my search.
It is thanks
[Applause]
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