Pinochet-era victims exhumed in Chile

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Staff and agencies
21 March, 2007

By EDUARDO GALLARDO, Associated Press Writer 33 minutes ago

SANTIAGO, Chile - Authorities on Tuesday began exhuming the remains of dozens of victims of repression under the 1973-90 dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet in a renewed effort to determine their identities.

The victims were originally buried in unmarked tombs at Santiago‘s General Cemetery in the first few weeks after the bloody 1973 coup led by Pinochet. Some coffins contained the remains of two victims.

Because of those failures, the judge decided to call three foreign experts to help with the new exhumations, said Maria Luisa Sepulveda, a social worker appointed by the government to follow the process. She said the samples of the human remains may be sent abroad for tests.

Fewer than 200 of the missing have been accounted for properly.


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In the group photo, Pinochet faces the camera, beside Henry Kissinger

[Hieronymus]

1. Thanks for the article and the pictures.