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May 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Her office said she would donate the money to an anti-torture charity.
“Brazil deserves the truth, the new generations deserve the truth and above
all, those who lost friends and relatives and who continue to suffer as if
they were dying again each day deserve the truth,” Mrs Rousseff said,
choking back tears as she read out names of relatives of the victims.
It marks the first time Brazil has endeavored to provide some accounting for
the dictatorship-era rights abuses.
Unlike other South American countries ruled by right-wing dictatorships that
committed political abuses and killings from the 1960s to the 1980s –
Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Chile – Brazil has never put the
perpetrators on trial.
The government officially recognizes 400 dead and missing during the military
dictatorship, compared with 30,000 in Argentina and more than 3,200 in Chile.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights in November 2010 dismissed Brazil’s
amnesty law as legally invalid, saying it was incompatible with the American
Convention on Human Rights.
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