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Brazilian Truth Commission Proposed

HeadlineJan 06, 2011

And in Brazil, the country’s new Secretary of Human Rights has asked the Brazilian Congress to form a truth commission to investigative atrocities committed by the dictatorship in the 1970s. The calls comes just days after the inauguration of President Dilma Rousseff, who was jailed and tortured by the military regime between 1970 and 1972.

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