Σύμφωνα με πληροφορίες του BBC, ο Χιλιανός δικαστής Μιγέλ Βάσκες εξέδωσε
ένταλμα σύλληψης 8 Χιλιανών πρώην αξιωματικών, εμπλεκόμενων στη
δολοφονία του δημοφιλούς λαϊκού τραγουδιστή και ακτιβιστή Βίκτορ Χάρα,
λίγες μέρες μετά το στρατιωτικό πραξικόπημα του Αουγκούστο Πινοτσέτ την
11η Σεπτέμβρη 1973. Κατηγορούμενοι για ανθρωποκτονία είναι ο (τότε)
υπολοχαγός Πέδρο Μπαριέντος, που διαμένει πλέον στη Φλόριντα των ΗΠΑ,
και ο συνταγματάρχης εν αποστρατεία Ούγκο Σάντσες....
. Άλλοι έξι στρατιωτικοί κατηγορούνται για συνέργεια σε φόνο. Τέσσερις από τους οκτώ είχαν εκπαιδευτεί στην διαβόητη στρατιωτική σχολή School of the Americas, εκκολαπτήριο δικτατόρων, στελεχών των χουντικών μυστικών υπηρεσιών και βασανιστών απ' όλη τη Λατινική Αμερική, με έδρα τότε τον Παναμά. To 2000 η σχολή μεταφέρθηκε στο Fort Benning της Georgia (ΗΠΑ) και μετονομάστηκε σε Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC).
. Άλλοι έξι στρατιωτικοί κατηγορούνται για συνέργεια σε φόνο. Τέσσερις από τους οκτώ είχαν εκπαιδευτεί στην διαβόητη στρατιωτική σχολή School of the Americas, εκκολαπτήριο δικτατόρων, στελεχών των χουντικών μυστικών υπηρεσιών και βασανιστών απ' όλη τη Λατινική Αμερική, με έδρα τότε τον Παναμά. To 2000 η σχολή μεταφέρθηκε στο Fort Benning της Georgia (ΗΠΑ) και μετονομάστηκε σε Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC).
Multiple wire services are reporting this morning that Judge Miguel
Vasquez has ordered the detention of eight former Chilean military
officers as a step in his investigation into the assassination of
folksinger Victor Jara in the brutal days immediately after Chile's
September 1973 coup d'etat. According to the BBC,
an international arrest order has been issued for Pedro Barrientos, at
the time the lieutenant in command of the squad accused of killing Jara
who currently lives in Deltona, FL.
Along with Barrientos, Colonel (r.) Hugo Sanchez has also been charged
with homicide. The other six are charged with complicity in the
murder.
Jara's murder was a flashpoint in mobilizing international opinion against the emerging Pinochet dictatorship, already stained by the extremely violent coup which involved firefights at government ministries, the aerial bombing of the presidential palace, mass detentions involving tens of thousands of opponents, and the death of elected president Salvador Allende (widely believed at the time to have been murdered by the military). Jara was detained in Santiago on the day of the coup itself, taken to one of the concentration camps established in the city's stadiums, subjected to brutal torture, and then had his fingers and wrists broken by the soldiers interrogating him. He was then murdered by machine gun fire (shot 44 times) and his body left on the street to be discovered by passersby.
On the flip, some songs by Jara to help us remember him on this bittersweet day. It's been 39 years since they killed him, but the dream he struggled for to his last breath lives on. Sierra Maestra
Jara's murder was a flashpoint in mobilizing international opinion against the emerging Pinochet dictatorship, already stained by the extremely violent coup which involved firefights at government ministries, the aerial bombing of the presidential palace, mass detentions involving tens of thousands of opponents, and the death of elected president Salvador Allende (widely believed at the time to have been murdered by the military). Jara was detained in Santiago on the day of the coup itself, taken to one of the concentration camps established in the city's stadiums, subjected to brutal torture, and then had his fingers and wrists broken by the soldiers interrogating him. He was then murdered by machine gun fire (shot 44 times) and his body left on the street to be discovered by passersby.
On the flip, some songs by Jara to help us remember him on this bittersweet day. It's been 39 years since they killed him, but the dream he struggled for to his last breath lives on. Sierra Maestra
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