37 the respective death certificates.106 The Interministerial Commission requested the collaboration of the Armed Forces in order to establish “who had [been deprived of life], where they had been buried, and how this had occurred.”107 Nevertheless, the Armed Forces argued that “they did not have at their disposal any documentation related to that which had occurred in the Araguaia region between 1972 and 1974” and they affirmed, “that all the documents related to the repression carried out by the military regime against the [Guerrilha do Araguaia] were destroyed in various periods based on the legislation in force.”108 The work of the Interministerial Commission ended in March 2007, after carrying out three expeditions to the Araguaia region without finding any bodily remains.109 These expeditions occurred twice in August 2004, and they counted on the participation of experts from the Federal Police and the support of the Armed Forces, and in another occasion in December 2006,110 with the support of experts from the Federal Police.111 In its final Report issued on March 8, 2007,112 the Interministerial Commission, inter alia, recommended: a) the “declassification all grade types of confidential documents related to [the episode of the Guerrilha do Araguaia]”; b) the “revision of the legislation related to the issue of access and confidential information and public documents;” c) new procedures in the search for bodily remains in the region of Araguaia to be conducted by the Special Commission; d) the creation of an administrative authority that is permanently open by the Ministry of Defense to receive testimonies and documents on the location of the bodily remains of the disappeared persons, and e) that “the Armed Forces proceed […] to [a] formal ‘rigorous investigation’ for the construction of a specific and detailed table of operations carried out [against the G]uerilla, calling on and formally listening to the agents that are still alive to date.” v. Genetic Bank and Tocantins Working Group 99. As of September 2006, the State began the creation of a DNA Bank, in attempts to collect samples of blood of all of the next of kin of the disappeared so as to create a genetic profile of each of the disappeared persons.113 In total, “142 samples of blood of the [next of kin] have been collected of 108 politically disappeared persons.”114 100. In 2009, via Order No. 567 of the Ministry of Defense, the State created the Tocantins Working Group in order to coordinate and carry out the necessary steps to locate, recognize, and identify the bodies of the members of the Guerrilla 106 Cf. Report of the Interministerial Commission created by Decree No. 4850 of October 2, 2003 (brief of annexes to the answer to the application, tome I, annex 1, folios 5529 to 5531). The Interministerial Commission was formed by representatives of the Ministry of Justice, of the Civil House, of the Ministry of Defense, of the Special Secretariat for Human Rights, and of the Office of the Attorney General of the Union. 107 Report of the Interministerial Commission, supra note 106, folio 5531. 108 Report of the Interministerial Commission, supra note 106, folio 5531. 109 Cf. Report of the Interministerial Commission, supra note 106, folios 5527 to 5537. 110 Cf. Trip Report, supra note 94, folios 6382 and 6383. 111 Cf. Trip Report, supra note 94, folios 6384 and 6385. 112 Cf. Report of the Interministerial Commission, supra note 106, folios 5535 to 5537. 113 Cf. Right to Memory and Truth, supra note 67, folios 5611 and 5612, and Report of the Interministerial Commission, supra note 106, folio 5534. 114 Final written arguments of the State, supra note 104, folio 4933.

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