Brazilian prosecutors Tuesday unveiled the first court case for crimes committed during the two-decade military dictatorship, charging an army colonel over five unresolved kidnappings. Army colonel Sebastiao Curio Rodrigues de Moura, better known as "Dr Luchini," was charged over the kidnapping of five militants captured during a crackdown on leftist guerrillas in the 1970s and still missing today, prosecutor Tiago Rabelo told a press conference.
Araguaia guerrillas, a movement founded by a splinter group of the Brazilian Communist Party, were active against the military government between 1966-1974 on the Araguaia river banks. The charges come after President Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist guerrilla jailed and tortured during the 1964-1985 dictatorship, in November endorsed the creation of a truth panel to probe human rights abuses during the period. The truth commission is meant to investigate issues including politically motivated abductions in the Cold War-era, rights abuses and murders over a time span longer than the dictatorship - 1946-1988.
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