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Chilean court adds more charges
to Pinochet's cases
Santiago's Sixth Appeals Court
on Friday added five more
charges to the former dictator
Augusto Pinochet's charge sheet.
The court raised the number of
charges in the Operation Colombo
case from nine to 14, at the
request of the family of Arturo
Barria Araneda, one of five
victims cited in the case.
Pinochet had previously pleaded
ignorance of these crimes, but
in Friday's ruling, judges said
it was impossible, that as
president and head of the army,
he could have been kept ignorant
of the actions of the
now-defunct National
Intelligence Directorate (DINA).
Judges said during Operation
Colombo, Chile's DINA and
similar oppressive governmental
bodies in Argentina and Brazil
worked together to cover the
disappearance of 119 opponents
of Pinochet's military regime in
1975.
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