Jason Tércio, author of “Besieged”: encampments in barracks are the opposite of the Ibiúna congress.
This is a detailed account of how approximately 700 young people were surrounded and arrested by the police in Ibiúna, in the interior of São Paulo.
By Denise Assis, 247 - Journalist Jason Tércio, author of several books, one of them "State Secret," the first to reveal the last steps of former congressman Rubens Paiva before his arrest, and the dictatorship's schemes to fake his disappearance and death in the DOI-CODI facilities – a repressive apparatus created by the Army Information Center (CIE) – now brings us the story of "Besieged."
This is a detailed account of how approximately 700 young people were surrounded and arrested by the police in Ibiúna, in the interior of São Paulo. Tércio spoke with “Denise Assis Convida,” which aired this coming Sunday at noon. In the interview, he recounts the story of the siege of the property, rented through the mediation of the Dominican friars, which ultimately led to the arrest of Frei Tito. He was the one who made contact between the students and the owner. Brutally tortured, Tito never recovered from the wounds to his soul, eventually committing suicide in a convent in Paris.
In a light and colloquial style, Jason Tércio reveals the memories of the survivors of the repression during that episode, and the characters from that adventure, the beginning of a true hunt for "subversives," which started there, with the police records from Ibiúna.
“From there they persecuted and ended up decimating the left, between 1968 and 1974. By that period everything was already over. They were courageous young people who wanted freedom, a better country, nothing like the encampments in front of the barracks, organized by the far right. Those wanted the opposite, they called for military intervention,” he emphasizes. “I wrote the book precisely to show today's youth that those young people were left with no way out, to tell this story, which until then had been a gap. It was one of the most important episodes in our recent history,” he assesses.
