Where is Eduardo Collier Filho? Contribution to the debate about the National Programme on Human Rights

Abstract

During his government, President Jair Bolsonaro confronted the Human Rights policy regarding violations committed by the military and civil dictatorship established in 1964. One example of this conduct occurred when he made polemic declarations about an event where the repressive State killed militants who belonged to the revolutionary Ação Popular Marxista-Leninista (APML) and disappeared with their bodies. Bolsonaro denied the State’s responsibility and put the honor of the victims in check. This article focuses on facts related to one of the victims, Eduardo Collier Filho, who is still reported as one of the missing politicians of the dictatorship. The goal is to place facts in the history of APML and analyze this case in the agenda of dead and missing people in the context of the Justiça de Transição (transitional justice). Documents produced by the repressive apparatus, by the Human Rights movements, and by the public agencies related to the Justiça de Transição (transitional justice) are analyzed in this article.