Brazilian president Rousseff sanctions Truth Commission and Data access bills

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Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff on Friday signed into law the creation of a commission to investigate human rights abuses committed during military dictatorships with the purpose of strengthening democracy but ‘leaving aside all forms of revenge’. Read full article

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GeoffWard2
So, the 'Seven Just Men' will research the Truth and Memory of human rights failings during (just) the 1946-88 Military era, including the civilian governance of the period.

However the Commission won't ascribe criminal responsibility because Brazil has re-ratified its 1979 amnesty.
This amnesty applies to military personnel, anti-government forces, and - most of all - the Presidenta.

So we are now, through the '7', legally able to find out what exactly Dilma did during her years as an international marxist revolutionary. This will be of particular interest to the USA who lost - so it is recorded - US citizens at the hands of her two revolutionary cells.

This is why Mujica voted against this process of 'looking under the stones' in Uruguay,

and why most nations undertake one-sided, asymmetric 'investigations and trials involving only military wrong-doings.

Dilma is either very brave, or very foolhardy.
I imagine her present ministers are totally behind her initiative!
A lot of mud can be made to stick, even if there is an amnesty.
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