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Judi Lynn

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Thu Aug 31, 2023, 05:28 AM Aug 2023

Chile to launch a search plan for those 'disappeared' during the Pinochet dictatorship

ROGER MCKENZIE
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2023



General Pinochet in 1986 Photo: Chilean Congress National Library/cc

THE Chilean government said yesterday that it will launch a search plan for those people who went missing during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

Chilean Minister of Justice Luis Cordero said the government was planning to put in place reparations not only to the families of the victims, but also to society.

The National Search Plan for Detainees Disappeared is set to be launched today by the government.

The whereabouts of some 1,192 detainees who went missing during Pinochet’s dictatorship is still unknown

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The launch of the search plan comes ahead of the 50th anniversary of the US-backed coup against then-president Salvador Allende on September 11, which is remembered as one of the darkest moments in the history of the South American country.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/chile-launch-search-plan-those-disappeared-during-pinochet-dictatorship

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