been produced.79 Even when they have destroyed entire libraries, and books of those persecuted who became universal authors (such as, among so many others, Dante Alighieri), at different moments throughout history, invoking for this “State reasons”, they have not been able to destroy them as bonds to memories. In effect, the memory of the victims has survived the most horrible atrocities, despite the attempts to cover them and impose obscurity. 117. For example, in his memories of the Spanish civil war, George Orwell denounces the lies that led hundreds and hundreds of people to the armed struggle and death, and that immediately sought to dishonor the dead.80 Before the possibility of having so many lies go down in history, he confessed “the sensation that the concept itself of objective truth is disappearing from the world."81 He also confessed his fear before the purpose of the “leaders” in power of controlling not only the future, but also the past; “this perspective”, - added G. Orwell, - "scares me much more than the bombs."82 118. When remembering an Italian militiaman he had known and who had disappeared in that civil war, G. Orwell expressed, in verse, all his repugnance for the war and the uselessness of the human sacrifices, while also stating his faith in human conscience and in the primacy of spirit over matter: "(...) Your name and your deeds were forgotten Before your bones were dry, And the lie that slew you is buried Under a deeper lie; But the thing that I saw in your face No power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst Shatters the crystal spirit."83 119. However, human memory has survived a succession of brutalities and currently the human conscience has awoken for the duty to remember and the right to remember, in both its individual and social dimensions. The evolution of International Human Rights Law in general (moved, like that of all Law, by the universal juridical conscience), and the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court, en particular, especially in its Judgments in cases of great cultural density, such as, v.g. the cases of Bámaca Velásquez versus Guatemala (2000-2002) and the Moiwana Community versus Suriname (2005-2006), whose public hearings I remember as if they had occurred yesterday, have contributed decisively to this awakening. In view of . Cf., recently, F. Báez, História Universal da Destruição dos Livros (Das Tábuas da Suméria à Guerra do Iraque), Rio de Janeiro, Ediouro, 2006, pp. 17-376. 79 . Remember that, in his famous allegory 1984, G. Orwell outlines the structure of a totalitarian State, in which an official department dogmatically tried to erase the entire past. 80 . 275. 81 G. Orwell, Lutando na Espanha, São Paulo, Ed. Globo, 2006 [reed.], pp. 273- . Ibid., p. 276. And, for an appreciation of the literary legacy of G. Orwell, cf., v.g., J. Meyers, Orwell - La Conciencia de una Generación, Barcelona, Vergara Ed., 2002, pp. 173-225. 82 . 83 Reproduced in: G. Orwell, Lutando na Espanha, op. cit. supra n. (51), p. 384.