Political Transition, Continuities and Permanences: The Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Political Transition in Brazil

Abstract

It can be said that Brazilian Transitional Justice was characterised as a complex of measures that simultaneously allowed the construction of memory and forgetfulness about the military dictatorship in Brazil. A political memory and, at the same time, a legal oblivion. In our view, this Brazilian option has prevented a real transition, accentuating and deepening the authoritarian continuities, a hypothesis that we will demonstrate in this article, regarding the serious violations of human rights suffered by the Indigenous Peoples during the military dictatorship in Brazil. These violations, which were silenced for a long time, were the most forgotten, and yet, possibly, those that generated the largest number of victims, with characteristics of true ethnocide.