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July 5, 2018

Chile: 15-Year Sentences for Officers Who Killed Singer Víctor Jara
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And in Chile, a court has handed 15-year sentences to eight former
military officers for the murder of legendary folk singer and activist
Víctor Jara in September 1973. In the days after dictator Augusto
Pinochet seized power in a U.S.-backed coup, Víctor Jara was arrested,
tortured and shot 44 times. He was one of thousands of leftist academics
and activists rounded up in a soccer stadium in Santiago, which has
since been renamed Víctor Jara Stadium.


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