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Latinnews Daily - 17 October 2017
Brazil’s military courts to rule on crimes by officers against civilians
Development: On 16 October, President Michel Temer sanctioned a law to change the penal code, allowing unlawful killings by members of the armed forces to be tried in military courts not civil ones.
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