Sisters: Former Chilean Army chief tortured us as children

[Judi Lynn]

3. Chile’s ex election and Army head at center of child torture case

Chile’s ex election and Army head at center of child torture case

Wednesday, 25 September 2013 12:32
Written by Charlotte Karrlsson-Willis



Embattled Juan Emilio Cheyre faces claims that he participated in the detention and torture of the children of a political prisoner during the dictatorship.

Former commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army and recently resigned head of the Electoral Service (Servel), Juan Emilio Cheyre, faces yet another human rights case from his time as a lieutenant during Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. In the latest case initiated by a judge this week, three sisters claim he and two other officers detained and tortured them when they were children in 1973.

Natacha, Yelena and Marianela Monroy Rodríguez say that they were taken and tortured after Cheyre and other military personnel entered their home in October 1973, destroying everything and arresting their mother. They were 1, 3 and 8 years old at the time, respectively.

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Her father had already been arrested when he was out of the house and her mother, Eliana de Jesús Rodríguez Dubó, was being interrogated about weapons the military believed she was hiding as part of an alleged “Plan Z” organized by militants in the area.

http://www.santiagotimes.cl/chile/human-rights-a-law/26757-chiles-ex-election-and-army-head-at-center-of-child-torture-case