Thursday, August 18, 2016 Chile court sentences dictatorship-era killersSantiago’s Palace of the Courts of Justice, home to the Supreme Court of Chile, the Santiago Court of Appeals, and the Military Court of the Chilean Army, Chilean Air Force and Chilean Carabineros. The slayings occurred in a detention centre in Pisagua, in the north of the country, in 1973. The victims were left-wing supporters of the ousted government of Salvador Allende, and were arrested after the coup and taken to Pisagua camp. The bodies were wrapped in burlap and then buried in a grave in the Atacama desert. The judge’s ruling order the Chilean state to pay a total of 510 million pesos (US$780,000) compensation to families of the victims for moral damages.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald August 18, 2016 06:31 UTC