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September 2, 2009

Chile Seeks Mass Arrests for Abuses under Pinochet
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In Chile, a judge has ordered the arrests of 129 former security
officials for human rights abuses under the Chilean dictator General
Augusto Pinochet. The move marks the largest-ever mass arrests in cases
investigating crimes committed during Pinochet’s seventeen-year rule
ending in 1990. The suspects all worked for the DINA, a secret Chilean
police agency linked to scores of political murders and disappearances.



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