HISTORICAL DENIALISM AS TRANSITIONAL (IN)JUSTICE: A LOOK AT FULL REPARATIONS FOR VICTIMS OF THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP BETWEEN 2018 AND 2022.
Transitional Justice. Reverse Transitional Justice. Full Reparations. Victims. Military Dictatorship. Historical Negationism.
This thesis aims to develop an understanding of full reparation for victims of human rights violations during the Brazilian dictatorship, within the scope of the Amnesty Commission, between 2018 and 2022. The aim is to use empirical research for theoretical elaboration, using a case study strategy, to verify how the Brazilian Amnesty Commission operationalized the mass reparation program for victims of crimes against humanity from the dictatorship period (1946 to 1988) between 2018 and 2022. In light of this research problem, the study seeks to answer how the Brazilian Amnesty Commission operated between 2018 and 2022, from the perspective of the victim(s). The research takes into account how the socio-political conjuncture can asphyxiate or oxygenate, depending on who holds power, the handling of policies for Memory, Truth and Justice in the country. The study takes into account that Transitional Justice and its mechanisms are ways of dealing with the past of exception, and how important it is not to disregard (or disrespect) it, because if we don't see the violence of the past critically, we won't be able, as a social body, to work through (elaborate) the traumas resulting from the violence of the dictatorial state, nor to bring about transformations in reality that have the power to build a minimally tolerant, prejudice-free, just and supportive society.