Samara Martins: It persecuted anyone who stood up and criticized anything about the government.
Samara Martins: Anyone, including indigenous people, the peasants who were killed in that period, including a large part of those lands, which they now say they own by the sweat of their own labor, were taken in the countryside, in our country, during the dictatorship.
Because whoever questioned it was... And there is, in fact, they've now set up a Peasant Truth Commission, because among those 426 who were in the National Truth Commission, only a few of the peasants have their stories.
Samara Martins: And they created the Peasant Truth Commission to be able to tell that story of what the dictatorship was like in the countryside, people who were not militants of the movements, who were not communist militants, but who were rural workers.
Samara Martins: who when the generals arrived, when the ruling class said they were going to keep the land, would keep the land.