- Countries:
- East Timor, Angola, Brazil
- Topics:
- Development, Law
- Languages:
- Portuguese
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A comment left at the Timor Lorosa e Nacão blog contests the reliability of today's Human Rights Watch report on violence in the Portuguese speaking countries Angola, Brazil e East Timor: “Of course, as an NGO based in Washington and financed by the State Department North American (and by a host of corporations), HRW would never mention that the USA are the largest of all violators of all rights plus one. Or what is the aggression and invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan, as not to even mention the Palestine?”
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