RIGHTS-CHILE: General in Hiding a 'Coward', Say Activists

Source: IPS


RIGHTS-CHILE: General in Hiding a 'Coward', Say Activists
By Daniela Estrada

SANTIAGO, Jun 14 (IPS) - Human rights groups in Chile described General Raúl Iturriaga Neumann as "cowardly" for fleeing the justice system, which sentenced him to five years in prison for the 1974 forced disappearance of a leftwing activist.
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Iturriaga Neumann, a retired army general, was to report to prison on Monday to begin a five-year sentence for ordering the 1974 kidnapping of 22-year-old Luis San Martín Vergara, a member of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR).

Instead, the 69-year-old retired officer went into hiding.

"I openly rebel against this arbitrary, biased, unconstitutional and illegal sentence. I do not accept it!" he said in an email message sent to the media Tuesday.



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General Raúl Iturriaga Neumann

Pinochet was on par with Charles Taylor, Slobodan Milosevic and Pol Pot.

I see no need for outsiders to judge the Chilean criminals unless they are apprehended abroad. Chile is amply capable to trying its fascists.

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