{"id":55,"date":"2018-10-15T14:29:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T12:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.menschenrechte.org\/en\/?p=55"},"modified":"2019-02-18T15:05:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T14:05:59","slug":"brazils-clandestine-mass-grave-in-perus-sao-paulo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.menschenrechte.org\/en\/2018\/10\/15\/brazils-clandestine-mass-grave-in-perus-sao-paulo\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s clandestine mass grave in Perus (S\u00e3o Paulo)"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Lana\u00eds de Castro<\/p>\n

In 1990, a clandestine mass grave with 1.049 unidentified mortal remains was found at the Dom Bosco Cemetery located in Perus, a suburban district of the city of S\u00e3o Paulo. It represents one of the innumerous crimes committed by the Brazilian dictatorial regime, which emerged with the military coup d’\u00e9tat<\/em> in 1964 and lasted until 1985. The discovery of the Vala Clandestina de Perus<\/em> (Perus illegal ditch), as it came to be known, was possible due to the courage and perseverance of a few individual persons.<\/p>\n

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Experts of the Equipo Argentino de Antropolog\u00eda Forense (EAAF) working on an exhumation. Credits: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2pRevtk (creative commons license)<\/p><\/div>\n

Lana\u00eds de Castro recounts the story of the concealment and discovery of the crimes committed at this illegal burial site.<\/p>\n

To read the full article click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1990, a clandestine mass grave with 1.049 unidentified mortal remains was found at the Dom Bosco Cemetery located in Perus, a suburban district of the city of S\u00e3o Paulo. It represents one of the innumerous crimes committed by the Brazilian dictatorial regime, which emerged with the military coup d’\u00e9tat in 1964 and lasted until 1985. The discovery of the Vala Clandestina de Perus (Perus illegal ditch), as it came to be known, was possible due to the courage and perseverance of a few individual persons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":56,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america","category-regions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/www.menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}