Word: pinochets
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...That didn't stop Judge Juan Guzman from issuing an arrest warrant for Pinochet on Monday, ordering that he be placed under house arrest on charges relating to the notorious "Caravan of Death" campaign shortly after the general seized power in 1973. The campaign involved a group of Pinochet's top officers touring the country's military prisons, rounding up some 57 political detainees, and summarily executing them. (And these charges constitute but one case of more than 200 pending against the general...
...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...
...General Pinochet: "For me to remember everything now is impossible. I myself never ordered any executions. There was an order from the government junta which said that shots could only be fired in self-defense...