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military regime; c) the photographic exposition “the Dictatorship in Brazil 19641985,” and d) the project “Memories ‘Essential Persons,’” that consists of panels
and sculptures placed in various public places. Furthermore, the projects of the
Amnesty Commission, include, among others: a) the “Project Cultural Amnesty,”
which encompasses public hearings of the Amnesty Commission where the
applications for reparations of the victims of the military regime are analized by
means of the “Amnesty Caravans”; b) the “I Encuentro de Torturados de la
Guerrilha do Araguaia,” [“First Encounter of Tortured Persons of the Guerrilha do
Araguaia”]; c) the project “Memorial de Amnistía Política en Brasil” [“Political
Amnesty Memorial in Brazil”]; d) the campaign for donation and collection of
information “Caminos para la Democracia” [“Pathways to Democracy”]; e) the
creation of a Working Group for the project “Marcas de Memoria: Historia Oral
de la Amnistía Política en Brasil” [“Memory Scars: Oral History of the Political
Amnesty in Brazil”]; f) the publication of the Magazine Political Amnesty and
Transitional Justice, and g) the creation of the Political Amnesty Memorial in
Brazil, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Regarding the recovery of the memory of
Guerrilha do Araguaia, the State emphasized the Museum “Paraense Emílio
Goeldi,” wherein the activities consist, among others, in the spreading of
knowledge and heritage related to the amazonic region, and the collection and
systematization of information on the Guerrilla. Lastly, the State reported on the
tributes made to the victim Bergson Gurjão Farias.
277. The Inter-American Court positively values the initiatives of
acknowledgment of domestic responsibility and the numerous measures of
reparation reported by the State. Nevertheless, as it has done in other cases,388
for the domestic acknowledgment to reach its full effect, the Court deems that
the State must carry out a public act of acknowledgment of its international
responsibility, in relation with the facts of the present case, referring to the
established violations in the present Judgment. The act should be carried out
during a public ceremony, in the presence of high-ranking national authorities
and of the victims in the present case. The State should agree on the terms of
compliance of the public act of acknowledgment with the victims or their
representatives, as well as the particularities required, such as location and date
for it to be carried out. Said act should be disseminated via the media, and the
State has a period of one year as of the notification of the present Judgment to
carry out the act.
iii. “Day of the politically disappeared in Brazil” and memorial
278. The representatives requested the Court to order the State to designate a
day such as the “day of the politically disappeared,” during which activities are
carried out to remember the disappeared persons during the military
dictatorship, to help create a culture of conscience regarding the severity of the
facts which occurred, and to guarantee their non-repetition. Likewise, they
requested the construction of a memorial so the next of kin of the victims can
visit it in order to remember the victims and carry out the activities of the day of
the politically disappeared in Brazil. Said memorial must include a permanent,
simple, and sensitive exposition of the victims and their next of kin, as well as it
may include temporary expositions.
279. The State noted that the creation of a commemorative day to remember
the politically disappeared persons in Brazil depends on its domestic law,
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Cf. Case of Kawas Fernández, supra note 188, para. 202; Case of Fernández Ortega et al.,
supra note 53, para. 244, and Case of Rosendo Cantú et al., supra note 45, para. 226.
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