Sisters: Former Chilean Army chief tortured us as children
Source: UPI
Sisters: Former Chilean Army chief tortured us as children
Published: Sept. 26, 2013 at 1:20 PM
SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Three sisters in Chile say they were tortured by the former head of the army as children in 1973, shortly after the coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power.
Juan Emilio Cheyre, who tried to distance the military from the Pinochet regime when he commanded Chile's army from 2006 to 2006, faces several allegations of human rights abuses as a young officer during the coup, The Santiago Times reported. He resigned as head of the electoral service this year because of allegations he kidnapped a young boy whose parents had been killed in the 1973 military takeover.
Natacha, Yelena and Marianela Monroy Rodríguez say they were 1, 3 and 8 in October 1973 when their home was raided by a group of soldiers led by Cheyre. Their father was already under arrest and the soldiers had come to arrest their mother.
"The raid was violent, they broke all the windows of the house, broke all the furniture," Yelena wrote in an open letter earlier this year. She said the girls were told to stand against a wall and Cheyre ordered the soldiers guarding them to hit them with the butts of their guns if they moved.
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(20,018 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,515 posts)Chiles ex election and Army head at center of child torture case
Wednesday, 25 September 2013 12:32
Written by Charlotte Karrlsson-Willis
Embattled Juan Emilio Cheyre faces claims that he participated in the detention and torture of the children of a political prisoner during the dictatorship.
Former commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army and recently resigned head of the Electoral Service (Servel), Juan Emilio Cheyre, faces yet another human rights case from his time as a lieutenant during Gen. Augusto Pinochets dictatorship. In the latest case initiated by a judge this week, three sisters claim he and two other officers detained and tortured them when they were children in 1973.
Natacha, Yelena and Marianela Monroy Rodríguez say that they were taken and tortured after Cheyre and other military personnel entered their home in October 1973, destroying everything and arresting their mother. They were 1, 3 and 8 years old at the time, respectively.
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Her father had already been arrested when he was out of the house and her mother, Eliana de Jesús Rodríguez Dubó, was being interrogated about weapons the military believed she was hiding as part of an alleged Plan Z organized by militants in the area.
http://www.santiagotimes.cl/chile/human-rights-a-law/26757-chiles-ex-election-and-army-head-at-center-of-child-torture-case
Judi Lynn
(160,515 posts)Chile Hunt for Justice Winds Up as Enigma
By PASCALE BONNEFOY
Published: September 26, 2013
SANTIAGO, Chile The Chilean courts have long been after Ray E. Davis, a former American Navy captain, accusing him of being involved in the murder of two Americans decades ago that inspired the award-winning 1982 film Missing.
A Chilean judge indicted Mr. Davis in 2011 and requested his extradition from the United States, where he was assumed to be living with his wife, Patricia. The Chilean Supreme Court then authorized the extradition request last October.
But it turns out Mr. Davis may have been right under their noses all along, living in a nursing home in an upscale part of the Chilean capital. Any attempts to haul him into court may now be too late; documents show that he recently died here as well.
The death of Mr. Davis, former commander of the United States Military Group at the embassy in Santiago, would leave many unanswered questions about the possible roles played by United States officials in the killings of the Americans Charles Horman, 31, and Frank Teruggi, 24, while in military custody shortly after the 1973 military coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet. It was the Horman case that is depicted in the film Missing by the director Costa-Gavras.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/world/americas/chile-hunt-for-justice-winds-up-as-enigma.html?_r=0