Valech Report - Criticism

The Valech Report (officially The National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture Report) was a study published on November 29, 2004 that detailed abuses committed in Chile between 1973 and 1990 by agents of Augusto Pinochet's military regime. The report of November 2004 detailed the results of the six month investigation. A second part was released in June 2005. Testimonies have been classified, and will be kept secret for the next 50 years. Therefore, they can not be used in trials concerning human rights violations, as opposed to the "Terror ...

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Associations of ex-political prisoners underlined the harsh conditions required for a testimony to be taken into account by the Valech's Commission, which has given a different definition of torture than the one accepted by the United Nations: Detention must have been of more than five days (in 1986, in Santiago de Chile, 120,000 people were detained by the armed forces. Of those 120,000; 24,000 were detained by carabineros for a duration of four days and a half). Detention must have been in one of the 1,200 ...

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Excerpts from the report as translated by The Miami Herald: [1]. Consciously or unconsciously, a conspiracy of silence about the torture spread slowly through the country. Political prison and torture constituted a state policy during the military regime, defined and promoted by the political authorities of the period which mobilized personnel and resources of various public organizations and issued decrees and laws that protected such repressive behavior. And this had the support, explicit sometimes but almost always ...

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Valech Report, Valech Report - Criticism, Valech Report - Excerpts, Valech Report - Methods of torture, Valech Report - Sexual violence against women

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