Brazil's Hidden War in the Amazon
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In the early 1970's, at the peak of political repression and persecution in Brazil, a collection of left-wing students and liberal professionals decided to move to a remote region in the Amazon to fight the military dictatorship. Two survivors from the so-called Araguaia Guerrilla War spoke to Thomas Pappon about how they endured life and war in the jungle.
Photo: Two guerrilla fighters after being captured in 1974 (Archive PCdoB)
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| 0:29.2 | Hello, you are listening to the Witness history podcast from the BBC World Service with me |
| 0:35.1 | Thomas Papon. |
| 0:37.0 | Today we go back to the early 1970s and the southern border of the Amazon jungle in Brazil where forces from the Brazilian |
| 0:44.9 | military dictatorship started a campaign against an internal enemy, a group of |
| 0:50.4 | around 80 guerrilla fighters armed with hunting rifles. |
| 0:54.3 | Dear mother and father, given the situation we are living under now, |
| 0:58.7 | we all should think about our lives and what to do with them. |
| 1:01.7 | I decided there is no sense in carrying on studying. |
| 1:05.2 | I can't be alienated from what's going on. I can't fit into the system. There is only one way |
| 1:11.6 | to transform this country. |
| 1:14.0 | I love you, but I'm afraid you won't understand the greatness of the path I am taking. |
| 1:20.0 | I am moving to a place without an address. |
| 1:22.0 | I will try to send you letters. |
| 1:24.4 | Don't worry about me. I am well and safe and I am not alone. |
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