The Supreme Court of Chile yesterday sentenced four retired soldiers to serve 20 years in prison for the murderous attack against two young Chileans, the “Quemados” case, an episode during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship.
The Supreme Court of Chile yesterday sentenced four retired soldiers to serve 20 years in prison for the murderous attack against two young Chileans, the “Quemados” case, an episode during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship.
This case had unfolded on July 2, 1986, against the background of a national strike against the military regime. A military patrol arrested, beat, doused in fuel and set fire to the two young victims.
Eighteen-year-old Carmen Gloria Quintana, a university student at the time, survived, unlike Rodrigo Rojas de Negri, a 19-year-old photographer, who succumbed four days later.
The day before Friday, the Supreme Court sentenced four officers from the days of the Pinochet regime to serve 20 years in prison for this case. They are Pedro Fernandez Ditus, Julio Castañer González, Ivan Figueroa Canobra and Nelson Medina Galvez, who were found guilty of the murder of Rojas de Negri and the attempted murder of Mrs. Quintana.
This decision puts an end to “a long process, very painful, during which we had to face the official position of the dictator that these young people set themselves on fire, that they had hidden incendiary bombs under their clothes”, commented the lawyer who represented Carmen Gloria Quintana, Nelson Caucoto, speaking to a Chilean radio station.
The “Kemados” case is one of the most emblematic of those to reach the courts in recent years regarding the crimes of the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990), during which, according to official figures, more than 3,200 people were killed or disappeared.
Source :Skai
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