BR's Rousseff Backs Dictatorship Abuses Probe
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11-22-2011 09:42 AM - last edited on 11-22-2011 09:54 AM
President Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist guerrilla who was jailed and tortured during Brazil's military dictatorship, on Friday endorsed creation of a truth panel to probe human rights abuses during that dark period.
"It is fundamental that the population, above all the young and future generations know our past, how many people were jailed, tortured and died," she said.
"The truth about our past is fundamental so that these acts which tarnished our history do not happen again," she added.
The president also promulgated a law lifting indefinite secrecy for public records and mandating their publication after a maximum of 50 years, another historic step to investigate crimes committed during the military dictatorship (1964-1985).
"Secrecy will never again be used to hide abuse of human rights," Rousseff said to loud applause during an official ceremony . . .
It does not however lift an amnesty for those who carried out the repression, in effect since 1979, and upheld last year by the Supreme Court.
http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/brazils-rousseff-backs-dictatorship-abuses-probe
Brazil deals with its troubled past.
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