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General Alfredo Stroessner ruled Paraguay with an iron fist for 35 years...but died in exile in Brasil in 2006...after a coup.
Now relatives want his body returned to Asuncion.
Hundreds of activists and former political prisoners have demonstrated against the request...strongly opposing the repatriation of his remains.
A truth commission reports that more than 400 people were executed or disappeared...
and 20,000 imprisoned...during his rule.
