URUGUAY: 22 May UPDATE: 8,000 March Again For "Disappeared" After Lawmakers Reject Military Amnesty Change; Protection Continues.

BBC

     Lawmakers have rejected removing an amnesty that has protected military officers from prosecution for decades.
     President Jose Mujica won in his effort to uphold the amnesty...even though he was imprisoned from 1972-85 under military rule.
     Mujica had warned of the "political dangers" of scrapping it.
     Human rights groups have attacked the amnesty and Mujica's support of it.
     "Uruguay has a moral and legal obligation to provide justice to those who suffered from torture and other abuses - not to protect their torturers from investigation and trial," said an Amnesty Intl. spokesman.

ALSO:   In Montevideo...an estimated 8,000 marched in the annual “March of Silence,”(below) to remember their "disappeared" and murdered friends and relatives.