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Aguiar-Branco recalls the last victims of the PIDE of the previous regime
The President of the Assembly of the Republic today highlighted the courage of the military who carried out the 25th of April revolution, in a speech in which he also remembered the last victims killed by the political police of the previous regime.
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Política 25 Abril
At the solemn session commemorating the 50th anniversary of April 25 in parliament, before the final speech by the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco considered that "one of the great myths" of the day of the revolution "is the slogan, repeated so many times, of a day without blood".
"Ladies and gentlemen deputies, there are at least four families who disagree with this idea. On that day there were people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time, people who left home to support the revolution, people who never returned home," he said, receiving applause, especially from PS and PSD deputies.
According to the president of parliament, "they were the last victims of the regime's political police and it is time to say their names in this room: Fernando Giesteira, Fernando Barreiros dos Reis, João Arruda and José Barneto".
"It is not enough to say their names, we must express gratitude. This week I took the initiative to invite the families to attend this solemn session for the first time. The invitation was for them to see with their own eyes what their sacrifice has achieved. To see and hear us. And here is the family of Fernando Barreiros dos Reis," he said. Words that led all the deputies to applaud.
In his first speech, at a solemn session of April 25, as president of the Assembly of the Republic, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco highlighted the courage of the military who overthrew the Estado Novo regime.
"If April 25 had failed, the only ones who would not have a tomorrow would be these men. And they knew it. They all knew it. And they did it anyway. And most of them did it again on November 25," 1975, he pointed out, referring to the end of the Ongoing Revolutionary Process (PREC).
The former Minister of Defense then argued that, on April 25, 1974, in the case of the military, "it was easier not to go out into the streets, to have a pretext or invent an excuse, it was easier to opt for neutrality or to stay halfway".
"None of them would be judged for staying. All of them would be judged for doing. This is the definition of courage - and physical, concrete, real courage. Because speeches, like this one, are made of words, of nice intentions. But history is made of courage and actions," he added.
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