Aplicação da antropologia forense na garantia dos direitos fundamentais

Abstract

Nowadays, the use of techniques for the identification of alive or dead is needed for this, or your family can enjoy the rights that fit you and thus, so that they can seek justice in the societies to which they belong. The most fundamental rights were denied to a significant group of people during the years of authoritarian regime lived in our country. Denial, above all, know the truths of the events reached the families who were unable to bury or unaware of the whereabouts of their loved political prisoners and missing the Brazilian military dictatorship. In this context that the forensic anthropology appears as an important tool to identify the human remains. The dissertation sought, from exploratory research to survey the form practiced by the dictatorship of agents to disappear with the evidence of the crimes committed, especially the bodies and the application of forensic anthropology in the current identification of these bodies exhumed from mass graves and clandestine graves. Recounts the difficulties encountered by Brazilian forensic anthropology and experience of the Argentine group of forensic anthropologists. Finally, it reiterates the importance of identifying the dead to bring breaths families and allow potential liability of the state.