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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 16. september 1973 / Timeline September 16, 1973

15. September 1973, 17. September 1973

09/16/1973
Den chilenske poet, musiker mm., Víctor Jara, samt adskillige andre politiske fanger tortureres og myrdes af soldater på et fodboldstation i Santiago.
Litteratur: Sådan myrdede juntaen Chiles største poet: Syng for helvede, syng. I: Demokraten, søndag den 24. februar 1974

09/16/1973
Four Chilean SOA Graduates Charged with 1973 Murder of Victor Jara
Four of the eight took courses at the School of the Americas [then located in Panama]. Pedro Barrientos, the second-in-command of the National Stadium which was turned into a open-air prison following the September 11th US-sponsored coup, and Raúl Jofré took the same Officers' Orientation course in 1968; Edwin Dimter Bianchi took a Combat Arms Orientation course in 1970; and Jorge Smith Gumucio took a Combat Arms Orientation course in 1972. SOA graduate Pedro Barrientos currently lives in Deltona, a city southwest of Daytona Beach in Florida, writes SOA Watch: Close the School of the Americas.
Eight Are Charged With Chilean Singer’s 1973 Murder After Military Coup
By Pascale Bonnefoy
New York Times, December 28, 2012
SANTIAGO, Chile — Eight retired army officers were charged on Friday with the murder of a popular songwriter and theater director, Víctor Jara. Judge Miguel Vásquez charged two of the former officers, Pedro Barrientos and Hugo Sánchez, with committing the murder and six others as accomplices...

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