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Indeed, regular justice of any kind hardly existed in Chile. Throughout this year, the Chilean Armed Forces ignored its own military code of justice. It murdered 20,000 Chilean citizens during and after the coup, and interned 35,000 citizens in camps or prisons, a terror which orphaned at least 30,00 children...
Further, from September 1974 to March 1978 the Chilean Armed Forces continued to deprive the Chilean judiciary of any institutional substance. A combination of purges of judicial personnel--particularly among the labor courts--and minor variations in the regime's periodic decrees measured the tempo of the judiciary's life...
...state of siege in the degree of internal security" change the status quo. Although the regime later created a right of appeal to the courts, Decree Law 1877 (August 12, 1977) nullified this right by stipulating that under a "state of emergency" the regime possessed the power to detain Chilean citizens arbitrarily and suspend appeal to the courts. Until the revocation of the "state of siege" in March 1978 Chile remained under both a "state of siege" and a "state of emergency...
...emergency" still governed the regime's judicial processes. Under these conditions, Decree Law 1877 held even minimally defining characteristics of an independent judiciary hostage to the military executive's will. Contrary to the thrust of Ambassador Barros' remarks at the faculty club, it is impossible to regard the Chilean judiciary as an independent institution at the inception of the adjudicatory process which it supervised...
Even though the terms of an earlier agreement between the U.S. and Chilean governments required the Department of Justice to restrict the admission of such evidence, a trial might nevertheless have revealed that Letelier's assassination fit into a larger pattern of regime-sponsored attacks against leading exile figures exporting terror. It might have revealed that in September 1974 the Chilean secret policy struck against Gen. Carlos Prats, the leading constitutionalist military figure in exile. Gen. Prats' appeal within the Chilean military cannot be gauged. However, constitutionalism had worried the junta enough for it to stage anti-constitutionalist show trials...