Uruguayan protesters demand justice for victims of dictatorship Uruguay has been plunged into political crisis after the country's Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a 2011 law revoking an amnesty given to members of the security forces for alleged human rights abuses committed during the 1973-85 dictatorship. Thousands of protesters demonstrated in the capital Montevideo on Monday, concerned this decision will mean dozens of human rights cases opened against former soldiers will now be mothballed. Images and soundbites.