22
Luiza Monteiro Teixeira; 18) Maria Eliana de Castro Pinheiro; 19) Maria
Leonor Pereira Marques; 20) Maristella Nurchis; 21) Rosa Olímpio; 22)
Rosana de Moura Momente; 23) Sônia Maria Haas; 24) Terezinha Souza
Amorim; 25) Valéria Costa Couto, and 26) Viriato Augusto Oliveira47,
alleged victims, proposed by the representatives. They declared on the
issues related to: a) their family relationship with the alleged disappeared
victims; b) the manner in which they came to know about the enforced
disappearances; c) the personal efforts and actions that the next of kin
took to ascertain the truth of the events and find the bodily remains of
their loved ones; d) the political context lived after the disappearances; e)
the actions of the public authorities, as well as other obstacles in their
search for justice; f) the pecuniary and non-pecuniary consequences of
the disappearances, and the lack of truth and justice in their personal and
family life, and g) the compensation received;
27) Danilo Carneiro, witness proposed by the representatives. Declared
on: a) the alleged activities of the activists of said region, and b) the
pattern of repression that was in place by the State during the military
regime, and in particular, the modus operandi of the alleged detentions
and torture perpetrated by state agents and their collaborators against the
political opposition and their collaborators in the region;
28) Edmundo Teobaldo Müller Neto, witness proposed by the State.
Declared on the alleged activities of the Tocantins Working Group
established by Decree No. 567/MD, with the purpose of locating,
collecting, and identifying the bodies of the Guerrilla and soldiers who died
in the episode known as the Guerrilha do Araguaia;
29) Jaime Antunes da Silva,48 Director of the National Archive, witness
proposed by the State. Declared on the alleged implementation of the
“Centro de Referência das Lutas Políticas no Brasil (1964-1985) Memórias
Reveladas,” [Center of Reference of the Political Struggles in Brazil (19641985) Memories Revealed] which dealt with the recuperation and
availability of the archives of the security organs of the state of emergency
regime;
30) Flavia Piovesan,49 professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights,
expert witness proposed by the Commission. Rendered an expert opinion
on: a) the Law No. 11.111, and the Decrees No. 2.134/97, No. 4.553/02,
and No. 5.584/05, in regard to the fundamental rights established in the
Federal Constitution of 1988, and b) the consequences of this regulation
for the compliance of the judgment issued in the framework of the
Ordinary Action No. 82.00.24682-5, with the purpose of examining the
specific possibility of the execution of said ruling;
31) Damián Miguel Loreti Urba, expert attorney on freedom of expression
and secrecy laws, expert witness proposed by the Commission. Rendered
an expert opinion on Law No. 11.111, the Decrees No. 2.134/97, No.
47
Cf. Case of Gomes Lund et al. (“Guerrilha do Araguaia”) v. Brazil. Reconsideration. Order of
the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of May 19, 2010, Considering clauses 23 to 29 and
Operative Paragraph 1.
48
Cf. Case of Gomes Lund et al. (“Guerrilha do Araguaia”), supra note 47, Considering clauses
12 to 16 and Operative Paragraph 1
49
Cf. Case of Gomes Lund et al. (“Guerrilha do Araguaia”). Reconsideration, supra note 47,
Having Seen 4 and 7.