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Chile Jails Pinochet Agents for Killing Political Prisoners
Published 7 December 2017 (4 hours 43 minutes ago)
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Chile’s Supreme Court has jailed three Augusto Pinochet-era agents for their role in murdering a trio of political prisoners during the country's 17-year military dictatorship.
Army Lieutenant Colonel Sergio Gutierrez Rodriguez and former sub-officers Ricardo Alvarez Jalabert and Carlos Contreras Hidalgo have been sentenced to 15 years and one day in prison for committing three homicides in 1973.
Austrian university student Nenad Teodorovic Sertic, a member of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), was killed by the officers, along with his social-worker wife, Elizabeth Cabrera Balarriz, and fellow student Luis Munoz Bravo.
The three were arrested in their homes on September 14, 1973 and were to be taken to a concentration camp at the Cerro Moreno air base. During the trip, the officers stopped their vehicles and fatally shot the young trio.
More:
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Chile-Jails-Pinochet-Agents-for-Killing-Political-Prisoners-20171207-0025.html