The Forum: Memory, Truth, Full Reparation, Non-Repetition and Justice for Indigenous Peoples was created with the objective of bringing together entities from indigenous peoples, civil society, public authorities, Brazilian academia and other national and international institutions, to undertake a process of analysis and debate around fundamental issues that explain the history of violence and deprivation of rights suffered by indigenous peoples throughout the history of Brazil, involving practices of territorial dispossession, arbitrary arrests, torture, assassinations of leaders, massacres and ethnocides; and, as a result, to broaden the public debate in favor of a process of memory, truth, full reparation, non-repetition and justice for indigenous peoples.
In order to broaden the public debate in favour of a process of Memory, Truth, Full Reparation, Non-Repetition and Justice for Indigenous Peoples and formulate a proposal to establish a National Indigenous Truth Comission, the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), the 6th Coordination and Review Chamber for the Federal Public Prosecutor's office (MPF), the Institute of Relational Policies (IPR) and the Observatory of Indigenous Rights and Policies of the University of Brasília (OBIND-UnB) propose instituting a FORUM composed by indigenous organizations, entities of the civil society, of the State and of the Academia, in addition to experts and historical activists on the subject and international observers to monitor and participate in the developing of the work.
OBJECTIVES
▸Promote inter-institutional debate and raise awareness in Brazilian and international society in order to reveal the truth, recover memory, hold perpetrators accountable, ensure full reparation and prevent the repetition of human rights violations committed against Indigenous Peoples, with the purpose of promoting structural changes that guarantee effective justice for these peoples, and the recognition and full respect of their fundamental, territorial, cultural and socio-political rights.
▸To redeem and reverberate to society the recommendations of the National Truth Commission (CNV), established in 2012, which, in Text 5 of Volume II of its Final Report, from 2014, urged the Brazilian State to assume responsibility for the dispossession of territories and other serious human rights violations committed against indigenous peoples during the military regime in Brazil, recommending that indigenous lands be demarcated as a form of reparation and that a National Truth Commission be created exclusively for indigenous peoples.
▸Support, encourage and disseminate ongoing initiatives by various indigenous peoples, in favor of memory, truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition, within the judicial system or other national or international mechanisms.
▸Support and promote initiatives of experience exchange with indigenous peoples from other countries who work or have worked on these issues.
▸Promote coordination and advocacy actions with global society institutes and international organizations involved in the promotion, defense and protection of human and indigenous rights, with a focus on reparation and justice for indigenous peoples.
▸Formulate a proposal for the creation, installation and operation of the National Indigenous Truth Commission (CNIV), in favor of broad and collective reparation for indigenous peoples, from institutional and structural changes which allow the non-repetition of the historical violence and crimes that continue to this day. The proposal will be presented to the heads of the three branches of government.
