home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
- Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wupost!mont!pencil.cs.missouri.edu!rich
- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: CHILE: GOVERNMENT REJECTS AMNESTY FOR FORMER PINOCHET AGENT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.082306.7426@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.activism.d
- Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
- Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu
- Organization: PACH
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:23:06 GMT
- Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
- Lines: 57
-
- /** reg.samerica: 200.0 **/
- ** Topic: IPS:Chile: Government Rejects **
- ** Written 10:30 am Aug 14, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:reg.samerica **
- From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
- Subject: IPS:Chile: Government Rejects
-
- /* Written 12:22 am Aug 14, 1992 by newsdesk in cdp:ips.englibrary */
- Copyright Inter Press Service 1992, all rights reserved. Permission to re-
- print within 7 days of original date only with permission from 'newsdesk'.
-
- Title: CHILE: GOVERNMENT REJECTS AMNESTY FOR FORMER PINOCHET AGENT
-
- santiago, aug 11 (ips) -- the chilean government has announced
- that it will not apply the 1978 amnesty law in the case of
- osvaldo romo, a former agent under the military regime of general
- augusto pinochet accused of serious human rights violations, who
- is currently detained in brazil.
-
- presidential spokesman enrique correa said tuesday that in the
- government's opinion, ''the amnesty law does not apply to cases
- invloving disappearances,'' a reference to the charges faced by
- romo.
-
- the former agent of the dismantled national intelligence
- department (dina) is accused of more than 100 serious human
- rights violations, including torture, assassinations and forced
- disappearances.
-
- romo was one of the most notorious figures of the repression
- unleashed against left-wingers between 1973 and 1975, during the
- first years of general pinochet's military dictatorship.
-
- chilean legal experts believe romo is likely to be repatriated
- within the next few days from brazil, where he has been detained
- since his arrest on july 29 in sao paulo state. romo had been
- living in brazil under a false name since 1976.
-
- a group of ''surviving witnesses'' of the repression,
- representing scores of people who were detained in camps for
- political prisoners, said tuesday that 90 of its members were
- tortured or imprisoned by romo.
-
- during a press conference on tuesday, members of the survivors
- group and residents of la hermida district where romo worked
- during the early 1970's, called on the government to take up
- court cases pending against romo.
-
- a member of the survivors group, dago perez, said romo had
- assassinated his mother, lumi videla, whose body was dumped
- outside the italian embassy in 1974, and his father, sergio
- perez, a leader of the left-wing revolutionary movement (mir),
- who disappeared that same year. (ends/ips/trd/ggr/sfi/cg/92)
- ----
-
-
-
- ** End of text from cdp:reg.samerica **
-