A Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate four decades of human rights abuses passed Brazil's Congress unanimously this week. On Thursday, Uruguay's Congress revoked a military amnesty and classified dictatorship-era kidnappings, torture and killings as crimes against humanity. President Jose Mujica ordered it published into law on Friday. Rights advocates in both countries now hope that their governments will reveal more about what really happened - just as in Argentina and Chile, where hundreds of dictatorship-era officials have been convicted of "dirty war" crimes.
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