Brazil president weeps as she unveils report on military dictatorship’s abuses | World news

/brazil-president-weeps-report-military-

  • @nidal
    Nidal CC BY
    1
    @kassem
    1

    Brazil president weeps as she unveils report on military dictatorship’s abuses
    ▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/10/brazil-president-weeps-report-military-dictatorship-abuses

    The Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, wept on Wednesday as she unveiled the findings of a Truth Commission investigation into the systematic murder, torture and other abuses carried out during the country’s military dictatorship.

    After a nearly three-year study, the commission confirmed that 191 people were killed and 243 “disappeared” under military rule, which lasted from 1964 to 1985. More than 200 have never been found.

    The 2,000-page report named 377 officials who were blamed for serious human rights violations and recommended a revision to the 1979 Amnesty Law so that perpetrators can be prosecuted.

    Nidal CC BY
    • @kassem
      Kassem CC BY-NC-SA

      The U.S. Spent Decades Teaching #Torture Techniques To Brazil
      ▻http://www.buzzfeed.com/hayesbrown/the-united-states-spent-decades-teaching-torture-techniques

      U.S. military officials spent years teaching torture techniques to Brazil’s military, including throughout the South American giant’s lengthy period of military dictatorship, according to a new report.
      After more than two years of investigation, the panel charged with documenting the human rights abuses committed under Brazil’s military dictatorship released its final report on Wednesday. The Brazilian report comes just a day after the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s own lengthy chronicle of the United States’ use of torture in prosecuting last decade’s War on Terror.

      According to O Globo, the National Truth Commission (CNV) report documents how more than 300 members of the Brazilian military spent time at the School of the Americas, run out of Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia. While there, attendees “had theoretical and practical lessons on torture, which would later be replicated in Brazil.”

      “According to CNV, training of military cadres in the [School of the Americas] during the period of the dictatorship and the years before the coup was considered essential to national security,” O Globo reported. “According to the testimony of the military to the committee, the national troops were prepared only for conventional wars, not a revolutionary war, as they believed they faced in the country between the 1960s and 1980s. The revolutionary war doctrine adopted by the Brazilian armed forces included the systematic use of torture.”

      #école_des_Amériques #Etats-Unis #terreur

      Kassem CC BY-NC-SA
    Écrire un commentaire