Chile: exhumation of graves may lead to remains of Pinochet victims
- 10 years ago
Family members of political prisoners of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship in Chile may find their loved ones' remains as exhumations proceed at what was a former clandestine detention center Colonia Dignidad, run by Nazi turned cult leader Paul Schafer. In the detention center south of Santiago, between 1973 and 1977 4,500 political prisoners, opponents of the Pinochet dictatorship, were detained and tortured and many killed there but their families were never informed of their whereabouts. teleSUR