RIO DE JANEIRO — The names of those who will make up a Truth Commission charged with investigating human rights abuses under Brazil’s 1964-1985 dictatorship were published Friday, taking the country a step closer to accountability for the past crimes.
The seven appointees include the attorney who represented President Dilma Rousseff when she was a leftist guerrilla detained and tortured by the military in the early-1970s. It will have two years to investigate abuses committed under military rule.