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Wed 01 Jan 2010Lula rows back on plans for military abuses inquiry
BRAZIL’S LEFT-WING government is set to back away from plans to set up a truth commission to investigate human rights abuses during the country’s military dictatorship after military chiefs strongly opposed the proposal.
The armed forces denounced the idea of a commission to investigate torture and other abuses committed when they ran the country between 1964 and 1985 as “excessively insulting, aggressive and vengeful”. The country’s civilian defence minister and the heads of the army, navy and air force all threatened to resign in protest if the move went ahead.
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