Brazil president, a former Communist guerrilla, to receive “apologies” from political ally for “torture”
By Julio
Severo
The Rio de
Janeiro state government said Friday it will apologize to Brazilian President
Dilma Rousseff for the “human rights abuses” she suffered during the country’s
1961-1985 military administration.
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| Dilma Rousseff, former Marxist guerrilla |
Rousseff will
receive apologies from Rio governor Sergio Cabral, a strong political ally of
the ruling Workers’ Party in Brazil, on June 4 for the imprisonment and torture
she suffered in the state. The Workers’ Party is the party of Rousseff and Luiz
Inácio “Lula” da Silva
Rousseff will
also receive the equivalent of $10,000.
Earlier this
week, Rousseff swore in the seven members of a truth commission created to
investigate “human rights abuses” under the military administration. The
commission will investigate alleged abuses only from the Brazilian military
against armed leftist militants. No investigation has been planned about civilian
and military victims of leftist groups. Marxists had been fighting, since the
1930s, to overthrow the Brazilian government and install a Soviet Union-style
government.
A study by the
Rousseff administration concluded last year that 475 militants were killed or “disappeared”
by agents of the military administration. Relatives of these militants have
already been receiving multimillion-dollar compensations since the
administration of former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a former
professor of Marxism, whereas civilian and military victims of Marxist groups
have been consistently left uncompensated and with no apologies.
With information of Associated Press.
Portuguese
version of this article: Dilma
Rousseff receberá “pedido de perdão” de aliado político por “tortura”
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