O delito de desaparecimento forçado de pessoas no Brasil: insegurança jurídica e hipótese punitiva

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the crime of forced disappearance of people in Brazil, in the recent brazilian military dictatorship context, verifying its origin and examining the internationals treaties and conventions about the subject. Cases of people’s forced disappearance in Brazil, that happened and were reported, will be approached, as well as the brazilian conviction imposed by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the Gomes Lund case, in addition to the historical and documentary work carried out by National Truth Commission. The question regarding the typification of lege ferenda will be approached, analyzing comparative law and the extraditions judged by the Federal Supreme Court about the subject. Will be demonstrated the need of typification of the crime in question, in addition to an approach about our slow transitional justice. This is a theoretical research, using the deductive method, whose techniques used to achieve the objectives outlined here basically consist on an investigation through theoretical sources such as normative, bibliographical, doctrinal and jurisprudential national and international, as well as other documentaries. The initial thesis is based on the affirmation that the absence of typification of this crime causes legal uncertainty in the internal legal order. The core of this investigation emphasizes that it is possible to punish state agents who committed human rights violations in Brazil, in our last government of exceptions. The topic deserves to be researched, given the shortage of doctrinal approaches in Brazil, with little jurisprudence on the subject. The views outlined here (legal uncertainty and grounds on the need for punishment of state agents), and the way in which they will be demonstrated, are the unpublished views on the way to deal with the subject. It is understood that the treatment of criminal matters involving the forced disappearance of people in Brazil should be based on a national law, that regulate this crime, in order to eliminate legal uncertainty and impunity, ensuring the effectiveness of justice and the strengthening of democracy