WHERE - PIC (Criminal Investigation
Department), Rio de Janeiro.
WHO - Mario Alves de Souza Vieira,
47 years of age, journalist, founder of the
Communist Party, Brazilian revolutionary,
native of Bahia, father of a daughter; torturers.
WHAT - Imprisoned on the 16th, Mario
was tortured until 5 o'clock in the morning
of the 17th. In desperation, after a brutal
beating, with severe external and internal
injuries, he was finally transferred to the
Army Central Hospital, where he died.
The body disappeared. Mario's widow, Mrs.
Dilma Vieira, has never obtained the official
answer to the question: "
Whatever happened to Mario Alves?"
HOW - Victim of severe beating,
hung upside down from his knees
and tortured, electrical shocks,
drowning and punishment by impaling.
WHY - For allegedly being a member
of the Brazilian Communist Party;
and a Brazilian revolutionary.
IN THE MORNING, INSIDE THE ROOM, A MAN LIED HELPLESS
"After being brutally beaten,
tortured with electrical shocks,
hung upside down from his
knees and tortured, drowning,
etc., Mario Alves kept his
decision of not answering his
torturers' questions. Mario's
position of not speaking had
aggravated their hate. The
officers were upset and feeling
helpless of asking questions
to an unarmed and defenseless
man, a series of questions
that remained unanswered.
Then, the tortures inserted
a wooden baton in his anus,
which caused rupture of his
intestines followed by the
hemorrhage that caused his death."
Sources:
"Statement of Attorney
Raimundo Teixeira
to "Jornal Em Tempo",
# 46, of January 11, 1979.
Appendix. " Political Missing
Persons" by Edição Opção 79,
Rio de Janeiro.
