Brazil’s government to the right-wing populists Jair Bolsonaro has in a telegram to the United Nations, the military coup of 31. In March of 1964, according to a new report in the negative. It would have been a legitimate political movement that had been supported by the majority of the population and the risk of a power to have averted the takeover by Communists in the midst of the Cold war, was quoted by the British broadcaster BBC on Thursday from the Letter, received by the UN special Rapporteur Fabian Salvioli.
Salvioli had criticized last week the government’s plans, the 55. To celebrate the anniversary of the coup solemnly. Attempts to rewrite history, and people to justify rights violations, would have to be decided by all the authorities and all of society rejected, he wrote. The Argentine is in the UN office of the high Commissioner for human rights for truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition responsible. The BBC had reported insight into the telegram. It says, among other things: “There was no coup”.
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military dictatorship in Brazil, Bolsonaro wants to celebrate the anniversary of a military coup
in fact, no great celebrations took place on Sunday, but the demonstrations in memory of the victims of the dictatorship. The coup against then-President João Goulart had been initiated in 1964, a 21-year long dictatorship. According to the later-established truth Commission were killed during the military rule 434 people, or deported. Previously, it had given on Friday at the presidential Palace of Planalto in Brazil’s capital, Brasília, a small military ceremony. Of state and head of government Bolsonaro, a former military man, has since taking office on 1. January on several occasions his admiration for the rights of dictatorships. (AFP)
