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Judi Lynn

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4. Brazil: Debate Revived Over Amnesty For 1979 Military Junta Leaders

Thu Dec 11, 2014, 03:11 AM

Dec 2014

Brazil: Debate Revived Over Amnesty For 1979 Military Junta Leaders

BRASILIA, Dec 11 (BERNAMA-NNN-EFE) -- Brazil's Truth Commission issued on Wednesday a report documenting "systematic" human rights violations during the 1964-1985 military dictatorship that has also revived debate over the 1979 amnesty that shields the junta and its agents from prosecution.

The document from the seven-member panel was formally presented to President Dilma Rousseff, who was herself a victim of imprisonment and torture under the military regime for her ties to armed leftist rebels.

Thanks to the report, she said, "the ghosts from a very painful and sad past cannot shelter in the shadow of omission."

The usually reserved Rousseff broke down in tears at one point, though she insisted that the Truth Commission's findings "should not be the motive for hatreds or score-settling."

More:
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v7/wn/newsworld.php?id=1092665

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