The Name of Death by Nick Caistor

Author:Nick Caistor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00

As to the causes of death of Maria Lúcia Petit, the document stated that the young communist had been killed by two gunshot wounds: one to the right thigh, fired by a 7.62 rifle, and the other to the head, “in the left parietal bone, typical of the passage of a projectile from a firearm, with a trajectory from low to high and from back to front”—the shot fired by Júlio Santana.

This scientific evidence led to the very first identification of a communist killed in the Araguaia guerrilla. Even today, Maria Lúcia Petit is the only person from the rebel movement who died in combat with the armed forces to have had her body exhumed and identified, although it is estimated that close to sixty communists were killed in this guerrilla. Aged eighty-six, Dona Julieta Petit is still mourning the loss of her youngest daughter and two sons.

Following the conclusion of the case, Maria Lúcia’s mortal remains were handed over to the family, who buried them in Bauru Cemetery, in São Paulo. The army never revealed the names of the men who killed the young communist on that morning of June 16, 1972. Júlio Santana never knew the name of the young woman he killed in his second homicide. Even today he considers it better that way. It is one name less to trouble his soul.

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