Operación Colombo

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The Operation Colombo was a military action in the days of the Chilean military dictatorship (1975), which for desaparecimiento ( disappearance is said to have performed) of 119 opposition members.

The matter should be cleared up after the end of the Chilean military dictatorship. According to the indictment, the Chilean secret service DINA, under the orders of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, had murdered unpleasant opposition members and tried to blame left guerrillas of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR) for this murder . In addition to Pinochet, the former General Manuel Contreras was also accused . Pinochet, who was declared fit to stand trial in 2005, died in 2006. In 2008, former Colonel Mario Manriquez Bravo was convicted of being responsible for conducting the operation. Judge Juan Eduardo Fuentes Belmar then ended the proceedings.

Individual evidence

  1. http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/05/26/chile.operation.colombo/index.html