Arns, Wright, Vanucchi and Eny Moreira are a standing ovation

Antonio Carlos Ribeiro

São Paulo, Brazil - The Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of São Paulo, Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns, and the United Presbyterian Pastor James Wright, Paulo Vanucchi and Eny Raimundo Moreira were standing ovations at the ceremony of repatriation documentation of military dictatorship and civil. Wright died in 1999 and was represented by his daughter Delore Wright.

Former Secretary of Human Rights of Lula's government, Vanucchi insisted on Truth Commission. In front of the Arn’s message saying "would not attend because they do not deserve homage", Eny Moreira replied: "Dom Paul is not telling the truth, he deserves all the tributes. I want him to receive this message: you got a standing ovation twice this audience".

The project Brazil: Never Again, which dared to secretly gather an extensive collection on the dictatorship in Brazil launched its digital version at this time. Documents saved in the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland, and the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago, the United States, to escape the coward fury of the destruction of evidence, were repatriated.

The creator of Brazil: Never Again, the lawyer Eny Raimundo Moreira, was honored by the proposed lifting of the crimes committed between 1979 and 1985, which received support from Catholics and Protestants progressive sectors to keep them in safe place during the crimes against humanity by National Security.

Upon learning that the processes of Military Justice could be up to 24 hours in possession of the involve people lawyers, a group began making copies of secret documents. The material was sent to São Paulo, which was organized by volunteers, coordinated by Cardinal Arns and Reverend Wright, and sent abroad.

The project was born in order to prevent the disappearance of several documents, during the process called "democratization of the country" and the first part was published as a book with the same name. The publication, launched by Editora Vozes, of Petrópoli’s Franciscan Friars, is the 37th edition. After the launch on 15 July 1985, it was reprinted more than 20 times in the first two years.

The secretive work has resulted about one million copies of the Superior Military Court documents, microfilmed and sent overseas to protect them and escape from possible seizure. 707 complete files and dozens of incomplete files are already part of the project Brazil: Never Again.

The World Council of Churches and the Center for Research Libraries gave copies of their collections to the Attorney General's Office, represented by the Vice Attorney General's Office, Aurelio Virgil Veiga Rios. These copies will now be scanned to make the project Brazil: Never Again Digital. The content will be available on the Internet, by accessing the Public Archives of the State of São Paulo.

Former Secretary of Human Rights of the Republic Presidency, Paul Vanucchi, who fought for human rights to memory of those killed in the repression and suffering threats and confrontations, used the occasion to remind the Congress that "the Legislature can not miss the chance to approve the Truth Commission, because we already have 22 years of consolidated democracy in Brazil".

The event opening was coordinated by Carlos de Almeida Prado Bacellar, of Public Archives of the State of São Paulo. There were exhibitions of Marcelo Zelic, of Armazém Memória, and Marlon Alberto Weichert, of Federal Public Ministry. The Reflections, was coordinated by Jaime Antunes, of National Archive, had the participation of Wadih Damous, president of the Lawyers Order of Brazil (OAB / RJ), Gilney Vianna, of Project Coordinator of the Truth and Memory Human Rights Secretariat of the Presidency Republic, Luiz Cintra Daniel Pereira, Deputy Secretary of Justice of São Paulo, and Paulo Abrão Pires Junior, National Secretary of Justice.

After the tribute to Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns, Rev. Jaime Wright (in memorian), Paulo Vannuchi and Eny Raimundo Moreira, there was the act of delivery of Collections to the Attorney General's Office, coordinated by Aurelio Virgil Veiga Rios, Vice Attorney-General Republic. The Anglican Bishop Julio Murray, President of the Latin American Council of Churches (CLAI), Pedro Gontijo, Executive Secretary of the Brazilian Commission for Justice and Peace, the Catholic Bishop Manoel João Francisco, President of the National Council of Christian Churches of Brazil (CONIC ) and the Lutheran Reverend Walter Altmann, Moderator of the World Council of Churches (WCC), spoke in name of these organisms.

Witnesses formal act of surrender were Eliana Rolemberg, of Ecumenical Service Coordination (CESE), and Anivaldo Padilha, of Koinonia - Ecumenical Presence and Service. And finally the pronouncements of James Simon, of Center for Research Libraries, Reverend Olav Fykse Tveit, General Secretary of World Council of Churches, Sydney Beraldo, Secretary of the Civil House of São Paulo, Pedro Taques, Senator, and Roberto Santos Monteiro Gurgel , Attorney General's Office.