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December 22, 2010

Request Filed to Arrest Army Officers Linked to Murder of Victor Jara 
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And in Chile, a formal request has been filed seeking the arrest of four
retired army officers for the killing of the folk singer Victor Jara
during the 1973 U.S.-backed coup. An attorney with Chile's Interior
Ministry's Human Rights Program filed the request for the arrests on
Tuesday. Victor Jara was an outspoken supporter of Chilean President
Salvador Allende. Jara was assassinated on September 15, 1973, four days
after the coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power.



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