2024-01-07 00:31:05
– Four Pinochet regime soldiers sentenced to 20 years in prison
The soldiers were convicted in a case dating back to 1986.
Published today at 1:31 a.m.
One of the victims, Carmen Gloria Quintana, was 18 years old at the time of the events.
AFP
The Supreme Court of Chile on Friday sentenced four retired soldiers to 20 years of imprisonment for the homicide of two young Chileans in the “Quemados” affair, an episode of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship.
This dark episode of the Pinochet dictatorship occurred on July 2, 1986, once morest the backdrop of a national strike once morest the military regime of Augusto Pinochet. On that date, a military patrol arrested, beat, doused and burned two young Chileans.
Aged 18, Carmen Gloria Quintana, a university student at the time of the incident, survived her serious burns, unlike Rodrigo Rojas de Negri, a 19-year-old photographer, who died four days later.
The Pinochet dictatorship left more than 3,200 people dead or missing
On Friday, the Supreme Court of Chile sentenced Pinochet regime officers Pedro Fernandez Dittus, Julio Castañer Gonzalez, Ivan Figueroa Canobra and Nelson Medina Galvez to 20 years in prison for the homicide of Rojas de Negri and the attempted homicide of Carmen Gloria Quintana.
This judgment puts “an end to a long, very trying process, during which it was necessary to challenge an official thesis established by the dictator according to which the young people had burned themselves because they were carrying incendiary bombs under their clothes,” commented Carmen Gloria Quintana’s lawyer, Nelson Caucoto, quoted by a local radio.
The Quemados affair is one of the most emblematic of the last years of the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990), which left more than 3,200 people dead or missing.
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