Uruguay removing amnesty for dictatorship crimes

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Uruguay removing amnesty for dictatorship crimes
By Associated Press
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - Added 2 minutes ago

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay’s senate is expected on Tuesday to annul an amnesty for crimes against humanity committed during the 1973-85 dictatorship, overturning the view of voters who upheld the law in two referendums.

Backed by leftist President Jose Mujica, the measure would then return to the lower house for minor changes and could become law by May 20 — the day Uruguay honors the 174 political prisoners who were kidnapped and killed during the military junta’s crackdown on leftists.

Courts could then prosecute human rights violations committed on Uruguayan soil, fulfilling a key demand of the leftist wing of the governing Broad Front coalition and complying with a 2009 Supreme Court ruling that found the amnesty unconstitutional.

Opposition parties on the right and Uruguay’s retired military are angry at the change, and the issue has roiled the governing coalition as well, challenging a common political ground this small nation has built through nearly a quarter-century of democracy.





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[lunatica]

1. Opposition parties and retired military are angry at the change

Fascist criminals are always getting pissed off about being held accountable. Psychopaths hate karmic adjustments.

May we all live long enough to see some karmic adjustments in our country.

[Arctic Dave]

2. Good. Sometimes you have to say fuck looking forward and take care of now.

[Octafish]

3. A blow to global NAZI enabled drug dealers everywhere.

Lots of very important, eh, dots connect through Uruguay. From a decade ago...

Neo-Nazis Remain Active in Latin America

...At the end of last year, there were several bombings in the city of Montevideo. Police captured the culprit responsible for the attacks, who admitted to being a neo-Nazi, but Interior Minister Guillermo Stirling insisted on portraying him as a "nut" and a "lone gunman" to the public...

[RedCloud]

4. Another Bush hideaway bites the dust!

[freshwest]

7. Yeah, baby!

[L. Coyote]

5. Will Bush be prosecuted?

George Bush Sr. May Face Charges: Conspiring to Kidnap and Murder Political Activists
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2459135

[harmonicon]

6. I obviously don't know how the legislative system works there...

but if a law was declared to be unconstitutional, why would a new law have to be passed? This seems really odd.

[freshwest]

8. Best news all week! Send 'em all to the The Fletcher Memorial Home!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2DfX4OGyoE

The Fletcher Memorial Home

Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
And build them a home, a little place of their own.
The Fletcher Memorial
Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings.

And they can appear to themselves every day
On closed circuit T.V.
To make sure they're still real.
It's the only connection they feel.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Reagan and Haig,
Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher, and Paisly,
"Hello Maggie!"
Mr. Brezhnev and party.
"Scusi dov'è il bar?"
The ghost of McCarthy,
The memories of Nixon.
"Who's the bald chap?"
"Good-bye!"
And now, adding colour, a group of anonymous latin-
American meat packing glitterati.

Did they expect us to treat them with any respect?
They can polish their medals and sharpen their
Smiles, and amuse themselves playing games for awhile.
Boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead.

Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye
With their favorite toys
They'll be good girls and boys
In the Fletcher Memorial Home for colonial
Wasters of life and limb.

Is everyone in?
Are you having a nice time?
Now the final solution can be applied.

Check the reason he wrote the song in the comments on the video. The list is longer now and they're trying to make the world a prison for us. So let's cut down on their living in freedom space as well.