Hello, my lovesomes!
As some of you know, Mara from my newest book, "Some Thing Called Myself," not only discovered she's becoming a zombie, but she's falling in love with two monster hunters that hate her kind—and she's doing that while dealing with the scars left behind from her experience during the Brazilian Military Dictatorship, which happened from 1964 to 1985. My book begins in 1990, but Mara (28) saw everything happening firsthand during the student riots of the 80s, and that's why I'm here today.
Today, March 31st, 2023, marks 59 years since the coup that put the Brazilian Military Force in Brazil's seat of power in '64. The Military Dictatorship lasted for more than two decades, exiled, violated, tortured, and killed a number of people that is unknown UP TO THIS DAY, and the actors behind it, the jailers, the torturers, the killers, the generals, degenerated, are still free today, with only a tiny, minimal number of them facing justice for their acts.
After the regime ended in 1985, the Brazilian Government refused to confirm any deaths. In 95, ten years after the end of the Dictatorship, the Government admitted only 434 deaths and disappearances, and solely of people who were part of political movements (theoretically not including people without political association). In 2002, though, the amnesty commission compensated people directly affected by the Brazilian Military Dictatorship... Today, the number of people who received compensation has already surpassed **30 THOUSAND**, which is much more realistic proof of how much violence and suffering the regime caused.
We're not in the 20th century anymore, but there is still much impunity, violence, and power abuse from the Entities who should protect us, and it's up to us, as a collective of people, to put things right. (...)
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