Brazil wants Rousseff's alleged torturers tried (President-elect)

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Brazil wants Rousseff's alleged torturers tried
By BRADLEY BROOKS
The Associated Press
Thursday, November 4, 2010; 4:37 PM

SAO PAULO -- Brazilian prosecutors filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking damages against four dictatorship-era agents accused of killings and kidnappings. One is a former army captain linked to the torture of President-elect Dilma Rousseff when she was a guerrilla in 1970.

The civil lawsuit also involves the case of a rebel who was killed while in custody after leading the 1969 kidnapping of former U.S. Ambassador Charles Elbrick.

Brazil's Supreme Court recently upheld a 1979 amnesty law pardoning both civilians and military personnel for alleged crimes committed under the 1964-1985 military dictatorship. But prosecutors argue the law does not prevent charges under civil law and say they are stepping up such efforts. Three other civil cases were filed this year by the Sao Paulo prosecutors.

The three former soldiers and a former military policeman in the new lawsuit were tied to Brazil's Operation Bandeirante, a repressive secret paramilitary police group that rounded up leftist rebels starting in 1969, prosecutors allege.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/04/AR2010110405429.html

[robinlynne]

1. They not only allege. It absolutely happened. The methods were taught by the CIA.

[fascisthunter]

2. let me guess... School of the Americas?

teaching terrorists and destroying any chance of a real democracy.

[robinlynne]

4. yep. I know many victims from Brasil. I married one who managed to get out of the country

in time because his parents could afford to get him out.

[markmyword]

3. Looking Back

You mean to say,prosecutors in Brazil are  LOOKING BACK? 
In fact, they're looking back 41 years to prosecute torturers.

Where are OUR prosecutors? Why aren't they prosecuting Bush,
Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Gonzalez, Yoo, Bybee and all the
others who not only tortured detainees, but who helped to
destroy and dismantle our Constitution.

Let's hope it doesn't take America 41 years to prosecute these
WAR CRIMINALS.

Bush has handed his case to the prosecutors, by revealing in
his memoir, that he authorized torture. 
What more do they need?

[robinlynne]

5. a little bit of courage?

[ngant17]

6. Will they invoke "national security"

to hide behind their illegal activities? If so, looks like they could find a way to beat the rap.

[gratuitous]

7. First thing that occured to me

Oh, those Brazilians! Looking backward to the past when they should be looking forward to the future. Let's have Sarah Palin go down there to explain it all to them, okay?