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Chilean dictator Pinochet covered up 1986 burning of activists, report shows
Source: The Guardian and agencies
Chilean dictator Pinochet covered up 1986 burning of activists, report shows
Jonathan Franklin and agencies in Santiago
Friday 31 July 2015 19.33 BST
Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet buried a police report which accused military officers of burning two pro-democracy activists alive, according to newly declassified US government documents.
The documents, published on Friday by the Washington-based National Security Archive, show that Pinochet rejected a police report which identified army units that doused Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Quintana with gasoline and set them ablaze.
Rojas, a US resident, died in the 1986 attack, while Quintana was disfigured by burns that affected 63% of her body.
After nearly three decades, 12 ex-military officers have been arrested over the attack after former military conscript Fernando Guzmán changed his previous testimony.
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Jonathan Franklin and agencies in Santiago
Friday 31 July 2015 19.33 BST
Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet buried a police report which accused military officers of burning two pro-democracy activists alive, according to newly declassified US government documents.
The documents, published on Friday by the Washington-based National Security Archive, show that Pinochet rejected a police report which identified army units that doused Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Quintana with gasoline and set them ablaze.
Rojas, a US resident, died in the 1986 attack, while Quintana was disfigured by burns that affected 63% of her body.
After nearly three decades, 12 ex-military officers have been arrested over the attack after former military conscript Fernando Guzmán changed his previous testimony.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/31/augusto-pinochet-chile-1986-burning-activists-cover-up
