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Pinochet Stripped of Immunity in Third Chile Case World News, SANTIAGO, Chile - A Chilean court stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution in a third criminal case on Thursday, this time for the 1974 assassination of a Chilean general and political foe. The Santiago Appeals Court has removed Pinochet's automatic immunity twice before but the 89-year-old has so far eluded trial on grounds his mental health is weak. Gen. Carlos Prats, who was commander in chief of Chile's army before Pinochet, was living in exile in Buenos Aires when he and his wife were killed by a car bomb. He was seen as a potential political threat to Pinochet, who tried to remove all opposition to his strong-arm rule. More than 3,000 people died and disappeared in political violence during Pinochet's 1973-90 military regime, but Pinochet has never been convicted in any of dozens of human rights cases against him. The ruling was announced by the court's top judge. "The facts of this case merited the stripping of immunity, and we will now take the legal steps to make him face the proof we have against him," said Pamela Pereira, lawyer for the Prats family. Under Chilean law, victims can participate in the prosecution. Chile's Supreme Court has upheld the appeals court's immunity rulings in two previous Pinochet cases. Former Chilean spy Enrique Arancibia is serving a life sentence in Argentina for being one of the participants in the assassination of Prats, who had supported President Salvador Allende, who killed himself during the Sept. 11, 1973, military coup that launched Pinochet to power. Chile returned to democracy in 1990 and has been ruled by three successive center-left presidents, becoming a model of political and economic stability in South America. (Reuters) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
