Word: guzman
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...Judge Guzman had previously ordered General Pinochet's arrest, but that order had been overturned by the Supreme Court on a technicality - Judge Guzman had failed to interrogate the suspect before indicting him, as required by Chilean law. Last week the judge set about rectifying his error by subjecting General Pinochet to an interview. And the general's answers to the judge's questions may contain some clues as to his likely fate...
...When Judge Guzman handed Pinochet an official military document from 1973 listing a number of detainees executed on the orders of the commander in the chief of the army, Pinochet responded: "I am not a criminal. Anyway, those in charge of the [judicial] processes, of the detainees, were the commanders of the different garrisons...
...Judge Guzman followed up by asking, then, if when he learned of the excesses committed during the officers' tour, he took any action, to which Pinochet replied that those in charge of the detainees' fate had been the commanders of the garrisons where they'd been held...
...Judge Guzman: "Did you give orders for people to be executed during General Arellano and his delegation's travels to different cities...
...Judge Guzman: "Did you ever give orders to the effect that the bodies of those who died on that occasion should not be returned to their families...