(en) Terrae Liberdade - The Brazilian State survives torture (Report of a dxs 23 perseguidxs, militant OATL on the 12th) (pt)

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Once, my grandmother told me that the police, after the military coup, entered her house 
looking for communists materials. ---- The suspicion was that she and my grandfather, who 
met in the famous Textile Factory, where they worked since age 13, workers were 
subversive. ---- In 2014 we remember the 50th anniversary of the military coup. ---- And 
all so strange and common today. ---- In 2007 I went to get a person on the road of Maca?. 
Arriving at the house where he lived in the community "Nova Brasilia," dozens of people 
were a wheel in front of my gate. ---- A boy was lying on the dirt floor, covering his own 
blood overthrown by the State. ---- The following year, the Group of Popular Education 
(GEP) tried to organize a festival of hip hop with debate about racism in Morro da 
Providencia, which today hosts a Pre-Vestibular Citizenship and Youth and Adult Literacy, 
built by some of today " criminals "and members, according to the State, this fanciful" 
armed gang "persecuted on July 12. A few hours before starting the activity, the Pra?a 
Am?rico Brum was already besieged by the 5th Military Police Battalion, despite being in 
the "occupied" by GEPAE (Special Special Operations Group), then the police.

It was only connecting the reflectors, which illuminate the court that the shooting 
started. We all lay on the ground and one resident who was sitting in the square bar was 
hit by a bullet "found" thrown by police.

She was taken to the Souza Aguiar and survived.

In the previous year, remember the day when two police officers raided the Occupation 
homeless Zumbi dos Palmares (discharged in 2011) and led a resident to "clarifications" at 
the station. Reason? This occupation was helping to organize another occupation, the 
occupation of the Quilombo Warriors (discharged in 2014), and residents should know "what 
would happen to them if it continued."

Democracy in Brazil... some very small stories closer to the day-to-day life of 
persecution, torture and death that run through the lives of slaves, descendants of slaves 
or "subversive" in Brazil.

Amarildo and Claudia became corners because their lives were surprised killed everyday and 
open wide the obvious: torture founds and sustains the Brazilian State.

The coup of 64 only extended torture techniques, existing and sophisticated since the 
colony to certain political organizations and thoughts.

What we face today with the unlawful imprisonment and criminal laws in the framework of 23 
protesters, is the resumption of this extension, as visible since June 2013.

Former or one who does not accept or defending itself holds up and torture yourself.

It was in 2003, for the first time, I realized that this story of urban social movements 
for democracy was very strange. Knew at the time that an anarchist militant had been taken 
to a remote area and tortured by police. The officers blindfolded and shot in the air 
saying they would kill him and his other companions. Today this is professor and militant 
campaigning with me, but carries the trauma of this day.

Dump in the Occupation homeless Warriors 234, in 2009, two protesters were arrested and 
choked with batons by the PM only question the brutality of eviction.

In front of the same building, and after another dump of an occupation homeless, I and six 
more protesters were arrested without having done anything. The images show the time of 
the arrests, police also show how putting seven people in the van of the same vehicle and 
prohibiting the distribution of water. After all we were taken to the Federal Police and 
jailed. I and another fellow, who is also going through the same situation today, we had 
to get naked in the cell and lowering our backs to the police. Reason? Habit, habit of 
torturing. Still left for hours in cells with no toilet and no power to access them. Only 
the pressure of protesters in front of the police station, and lawyers, who had access to 
basic rights.

That, years ago, it seemed outrageous to us. One of the things that showed in 2013, in 
terms of repression, is that this was a small experiment can be activated much more cruel 
way, and this is what we observe today.

Became the everyday image of wounded protesters brutally by the police or the news of 
prisoners and detainees. How can we forget the 200 totally arbitrary arrests on 15 
October? Reports of torture are terrible and can not be forgotten.

Before that day, dozens of youths had been followed in the street, on buses, threatened by 
police and militiamen. Many withdrew from the streets so for fear of death and torture. 
Many also began to defend, to react, and to be condemned also for responding and not accept.

It was 6:30 am the day 12/07 when I received a call from a mate of OATL saying that the 
police had gone to her parents' home in the suburb of Rio, with the provisional arrest 
warrant for her. The phone hung up and another fellow gave me the same report. In less 
than five minutes I was on the street, fleeing the violence that hit so many and so many 
companions that day, ripped out of the house to be thrown behind bars. There began a film 
with old plot: chases, searches, clips, photos, magazines, cars, interrogations.

Shortly after these two calls I discovered that the police were also looking for me in the 
house where he lived in Morro da Providencia. Were in three houses I lived on the hill. 
They took this information into the street. Humiliated residents. Only knew when I 
returned. While this occurred was seeking my freedom and witnessing a scene that to me 
well expressed this "fiction" and remembrance of 68.

A person in the car, which took me from home, I find with this fellow who called me 
before. We scored a point close to a subway station. We knew that the searches took place 
in prison, which were presxs outrxs compas, but not yet imagined the level of operation 
and only I realized everything that was going on when this happened. Seconds before 
arriving at the agreed location, we realized we were being followed and monitored by 
policemen via mobile. When bending a street close to the point, we saw a car that civilian 
police in "waiting". A policeman appeared behind that car, looked at us blankly and put 
his hand in his pocket. Had no doubt: we were ambushed. Waiting for us to stop the car and 
get a mate to hold all together. We were fortunate to realize this tactic (proven by 
tapping, police lines and comments in the survey), accelerate the car and run away. Still 
try to warn his partner, but the police had already surrounded her and surrogacy only we 
stop the car to fasten it to us. Follow as they arrested her on the subway stairs 
screaming his name like a criminal. Holding his arms, asked: "Where's the car, where's the 
car?". But she knew nothing. We were away, incommunicado, illegal.

In the 12 days that I was considered "fugitive", many things happened. Sought me. Were at 
my mother's house and followed twice by the street and on buses. Were twice the home of a 
fellow teacher with a photo and rifles in my hands. Back on the hill. Were on the street 
where he lived, and not finding me, took a guy who was at the bar having fun. They put him 
in the car and let him go in front of Tide, Avenida Brazil. Were in the house of a mate 
and had the cruelty to question his daughter and her friend, both children, with the same 
picture of me and the same questions. Created a climate of terror, as if we really were 
gangsters. Interestingly, the same Morro da Providencia, where they began their search for 
the "villain", the UPP police and traffickers sold drugs outdoors in such "pacified area". 
Today the shooting and returned a few days ago a policeman came down the stairs all the 
slum carrying a young murdered. UPP. Rio. Genocide.

Important to say that persecution did not end with the habeas corpus by Judge Siro Darlan. 
We are all prohibited from frenquentar public meetings and demonstrations. When we met in 
the streets, we are still followed by police who take pictures of us without any 
embarrassment. Importantly, too, the only prisoner of the manifestations of June is Rafael 
Braga, homeless and black, convicted by a racist justice. Caio F?bio and remain imprisoned 
and tortured in bangu, more than 200 000 people are imprisoned without trial. That 
happened to us has its historical place, so it seeks to express, but in terms of violence 
and violation of rights is not given close to what the people suffer every day. I remember 
how it was "normal", returning home, lie on the floor of the street while the caveir?o 
climbed. How was "normal" to have your home broken into, be afraid, watch and listen to 
beatings, cries and not able to speak or say anything. Much of the population lives in an 
open cell under daily torture - at home, at work, on the street. While any state, it will. 
And the main victims remain the same: descendants of the diaspora and slavery.

Peter William - Teacher of the state network, the militant OATL and GEP.