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RIGHTS-PERU: Gov't Seeks Legal Shield for Security Forces
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - The Peruvian government has moved to protect the armed forces and police against investigations for crimes committed in the line of duty, especially in areas convulsed by social protests or where remnants of the Maoist Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrillas are still active.
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ARGENTINA: Dubious Past? No Problem for Private Security Firms
By Sebastián Lacunza
BUENOS AIRES - Civil society groups in Argentina are concerned that private security firms, which have mushroomed to 850 in Greater Buenos Aires, employ many former police officers and troops who played an active role in the political repression during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship.
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RIGHTS-BRAZIL: The Long Shadow of the Dictatorship
By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO - Those who died and "disappeared" during the 1964-1985 military dictatorship in Brazil represent a mere "one percent of the agenda" of the Special Secretariat for Human Rights (SEDH), but captivate "99 percent of the attention of the press," complained Human Rights Secretary Paulo Vannuchi.
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CHILE: Human Rights Institute to Keep the Past from Coming Back
By Pamela Sepúlveda
SANTIAGO - The Chilean parliament has approved the creation of a national institute for human rights, another step towards fulfilling the human rights agenda of the government of socialist President Michelle Bachelet.
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CHILE: Alleged Human Rights Abusers on Army Payroll
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - Thirteen retired military officers facing prosecution for human rights crimes and corruption as well as one who has been convicted are still on the Chilean army's payroll.
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RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: The Unfinished Story of the "Disappeared"
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - "The night of Oct. 23, 1976, nearly 33 years ago, was the last time I saw my son Pablo. He was 17 years old, and he was terrified. Since then I have had no reliable news about his fate. My family and I have been left at the mercy of the anguished torments of our imagination."
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RIGHTS-CHILE: Personal Stories Bring the "Disappeared" to Life
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - Two Chilean women living in the United States were so moved by the plight of people who were detained and disappeared during the 1973-1990 dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet that they overcame the problems of distance, and wrote a book reconstructing the personal lives of eight victims through the accounts given by their closest relatives.
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RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Delayed Justice for Dictatorship Crimes
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - Trials for human rights crimes committed by the 1976-1983 dictatorship in Argentina, reopened four years ago after amnesty laws were struck down, are moving at such a slow pace that so far only 50 people have been convicted. At this rate it is estimated proceedings will continue for another 15 years.
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CHILE: The Journalist Who Caught His Own Killer - On Film
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - Leonardo Henrichsen turned his film camera on the soldier who was aiming at him and held it steady until he was shot to death. But the justice system never caught up with the killer of the Argentine journalist, murdered 36 years ago in Chile while he was filming a military uprising for Swedish television.
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RIGHTS-PARAGUAY: First Remains of Victims of Dictatorship Exhumed
By Natalia Ruiz Díaz
ASUNCIÓN - The discovery of the remains of two victims of the 1954-1989 dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay has opened a new chapter in the investigation of human rights crimes committed by the regime.
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CENTRAL AMERICA: Shades of Coups Past - And Yet to Come?
By Raúl Gutiérrez
SAN SALVADOR - If the de facto government of Roberto Micheletti remains in power in Honduras, the Central American right may be encouraged to stage further coups against the fragile democracies that have emerged in the region over the last two decades, analysts warn.
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RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Controversy Surrounds Army Search for Guerrilla Remains
By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO - The armed forces of Brazil will begin to search for the remains of guerrilla fighters who were forcibly disappeared in Araguaia, a remote area in the northern jungle state of Pará during the 1964-1985 military dictatorship, reviving an old debate on the role played by the army in that area.
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PERU: Fujimori Admits Illegal Payment to Spy Chief
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) admitted that he paid 15 million dollars to his former security chief Vladimiro Montesinos on Sept. 22, 2000, just a few hours before the adviser fled to Panama.
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