January 2, 1946 - Sérgio Paranhos Fleury
As chief of DOPS during Brazil's military dictatorship, Fleury became one of the most feared figures in the country's apparatus of political repression — overseeing interrogations, disappearances, and extrajudicial killings targeting dissidents and leftists. His effectiveness lay in operating at the intersection of state authority and sanctioned lawlessness, where institutional cover made accountability nearly impossible. The scale of harm attributed to him and the unit he led left a long shadow over Brazil's reckoning with that era.
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Sérgio Fernando Paranhos Fleury (19 May 1933 – reported deceased as of 1 May 1979) was a Brazilian police deputy during the Brazilian military dictatorship. He was chief of DOPS, the Brazilian "Department for Political and Social Order", which had a major role during the years of the Brazilian military government. Fleury was known for his violent temper and was officially accused of torture and homicide of numerous people, but drowned at sea before being tried.
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