Fighting Against Impunity: the Federal Prosecution Service and the Gomes Lund Case https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7329201700106 Rev. Bras. Polít. Int., 60(1): e015, 2017 Revista Brasileira de Abstract Política Internacional Recently, the Federal Prosecution Service has embraced the agenda of individual ISSN 1983-3121 criminal accountability for human rights violations committed by the military http://www.scielo.br/rbpi dictatorship. This article aims to reconstruct such process of institutional change, analyzing the effects of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Bruno Boti Bernardi ruling on the Gomes Lund case, and how it has favored a more progressive Universidade Federal da Grande group of pro-compliance prosecutors. Dourados, Faculdade de Direiro e Relações Internacionais, Dourados – MS, Brazil Keywords: Brazilian Federal Prosecution Service, Gomes Lund, Inter-American (
[email protected]). Human Rights System, transitional justice. ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-7127-2041 Received: October 12, 2016 Accepted: April 12, 2017 Introduction he Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985) was marked Tby the systematic practice of state terrorist policies against its political opponents, recurring to torture, rapes, summary executions, arbitrary detentions and forced disappearances. One of the most significant cases in terms of human rights violations regards the three military campaigns against the Araguaia Guerrilla movement, on the borders among the states of Pará, Tocantins and Maranhão. During these episodes, between 1972 and 1975, at least seventy persons lost their lives, including members of the Communist Party Copyright: of Brazil (PC do B) and local peasants. • This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons In 1995, family members of the political militants that were Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and killed and forcefully disappeared in the Guerrilla movement, reproduction in any medium, provided that the original author and source are credited.