'Co-authors' of Chile torture charged [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

'Co-authors' of Chile torture charged
July 17, 2012 08:33 PM

SANTIAGO, July 17, 2012: Chile charged two former officers in Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship Tuesday with being the "co-authors" of the torture that killed the father of former president Michelle Bachelet.

Alberto Bachelet was arrested in 1973 and court-martialed for treason for having been a member of president Salvador Allende's government prior to his overthrow by Pinochet's military junta.

Air Force colonels Ramon Caceres and Edgar Ceballos were arrested on Tuesday and charged with being the "co-authors of the crime of torture that caused the death" of Bachelet, Judge Mario Carroza said.

Bachelet, an air force brigadier general who opposed Pinochet's 1973 coup, was imprisoned until his death on March 12, 1974, when he was said to have died of a heart attack at the age of 51.

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The future president backed up by her brother, mother and father in Santiago in 1961.



President Michelle Bachelet



Brigadier General Alberto Bachelet
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