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10.03.2010

Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepulveda

Sentenced

Chili

Chile

Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras was born on 4 May 1929, son of a middle class military family. After the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Salvadore Allende by the Pinochet military junta on 11 September 1973, General Manuel Contreras was appointed, in 1974, chief of the Army’s Intelligence Service, DINA, set up by the junta on 15 June 1974 with the assignment to crush any opposition. He held this post up until 1998, a ...

18.02.2010

Osvaldo Romo

Sentenced

Chili

Chile

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18.02.2010

Miguel Krassnoff Marchenko

Sentenced

Chili

Chile

On 11 September 1973 Krassnoff took part in an attack against the house of president Allende where it is left completely wrecked. From 7 January until 8 February 1974, he is sent to the School of the Americas in Panama where he takes a course on urban counter- insurgency operations. On his return, he is promoted the rank of captain and has gained a reputation of being particularly tough. He becomes third man of the DINA’s Metropolitan Brigade (...

18.02.2010

Marcelo Moren Brito

Sentenced

Chili

Chile

Nicknamed 'El Ronco,' Moren Brito enters the military school in 1962. In 1973, he is promoted major in the Arica Regiment based in La Serena (north of Chile). During the coup of General Pinochet (see “related cases”), he is accused of having killed a student and having his body disposed of in the university heating system furnace. In 1974, he is recluted by the DINA where he works until 1977. In 1975, he replaces Pedro Espinoza as the head o...

18.02.2010

Paul Schaefer

Sentenced

Chili

Chile

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18.02.2010

Augusto Pinochet Ugarte

Died before end of trial

Chili

Chile

On 11 September 1973 Augusto Pinochet, then Commander-in-Chief of the army since 22 August 1973, with the support of the USA, led a military coup d’état that overthrew the democratically elected government of the socialist Salvatore Allende. Pinochet became self-appointed president of Chile and set up a military dictatorship that was very repressive towards political opponents. The regime ended in 1990 but Pinochet remained Commander-in-Chief of ...

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