Yesterday, 21 December, Brasil’s President Lula da Silva presented a human rights action plan which includes the creation of a national truth commission. The Commission will have the purpose to elucidate the human rights violations during the military dictatorship between 1964 and 1985. Since the end of the dictatorship in 1985, no systematic investigation of the grave human rights violations that haunted the country, including torture and forced disappearences, has been carried out. According to the national Human Rights Secretary, the Commission will, among other things, conduct interviews with the victims and their relatives to collect systematic information on the…