Relatives of disappeared politicians want to reduce the number of soldiers in the group created by the government to locate and collect the bodies of guerrillas who worked in the Araguaia Guerrilla. For 33 families who signed document with this request, delivered to the defense minister, Celso Amorim, two weeks ago, the presence of military expeditions in the Araguaia Working Group (GTA) "scare" the locals where the searches are made, increases the costs of operation and has no guaranteed results in the location of the remains. The document was handed to Amorim at the first meeting of the minister with relatives of victims of the dictatorship, the Department of Human Rights.
Since the group was created in 2009 pursuant to a court order, the military has provided logistic support to operations. The GTA is composed of military, families of the disappeared, observers and researchers. Each expedition involves, on average, 135 people: two-thirds and one-third are military, civilian. The Ministry of Defence spent with the expeditions of 2011 and 2012 was R $ 3.9 million, of which R $ 2.4 million with daily tickets and transportation, including car rental and fuel. The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights Secretariat also pay expenses of its members, but with much lower values.
"The participation of a more effective military is justified due to the characteristics of the region and is responsible for the military security activities, transportation, communication, health, mapping, among others, relating to logistical support liability under the Command of the Army," said the Ministry of Defence.
But in a statement, family members dispute the number of troops. "We understand that the number of troops in expeditions should be reduced, since only scares the locals and also the very onerous amount of spending that is shown without the need for so many pictures, apparatus and equipment available in the logistics," says the document.
Family members also claim that the best results were obtained in the search in the absence of the military. "Most of the information obtained by the relatives were only really possible when they were unaccompanied by military forces in 1981, 1991 and 1996, when the government apparatus was small."
But the position of family members is not unanimous. Many parents support the work of the group, as Diva Santana, who represents the family Committee Political Deaths and Disappearances, and believe that this is the best possible route.
Thursday 7 February 2013
http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/familias-querem-mudar-grupo-que-busca-mortos-no-araguaia-7206332#ixzz2KAXIHzQm
[In Portuguese; translated with Google Translate]
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