Comissão da Verdade e seus documentos: entre memória, verdade e justiça

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to understand how the information produced by the Truth Commissions has a central role in promoting the rights of Transitional Justice in its dimensions of justice, memory and truth. The methodology consists of exploratory research and literature review. The results show that the Truth Commissions play a social role in the documents produced on the testimonies, revealing numerous facts that occurred during the military dictatorship in Brazil. However, these testimonies are targets of dispute, whether in the material or symbolic field, in the discourses between memory and history. It is concluded that the document becomes a driving spring capable of contributing to the realization of this transitional justice. This debate becomes important at a time when information is losing its value as evidence, seen within a growing wave of appreciation of personal beliefs as a qualifying element of a "truth". Understanding the potential of public information and documents on human rights violations is fundamental to the constitution of a Democratic State.