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Weekly Report - 10 January 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)
BRAZIL: Military may have to face up to violent past
In late December an Italian judge charged 146 South American officers,
including 13 Brazilian officers, with the "disappearance" of Italian
citizens when military juntas ruled the Southern Cone countries in the 1970s and
early 1980s. A retired Brazilian army officer, General Agnaldo del Nero, later
confirmed that the Brazilian military arrested foreign leftwing dissidents and
handed them over to other Latin American military governments. The admission
stirred controversy in Brazil, not least because the country's establishment has
so far failed to make a tangible evaluation of its violent past.
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