03 Jul 03
Eight retired army generals in Chile have acknowledged that secret graves of people killed by the military regime were later dug up to dispose of the bodies.
The generals, including members of Augusto Pinochet's military junta in power from 1973 to 1990, condemned the illegal exhumations, saying they were incompatible with the conduct of military officers.
They apologised to the Chilean people and said human rights violations must never be repeated.
More than 3,000 people were killed or disappeared during General Pinochet's brutal crackdown on opponents and hundreds of bodies have never been found...
The bodies belonged to people who were killed inside the presidential palace during the 1973 coup.
They were exhumed in December 1978 and thrown into the sea from helicopters.
Human rights groups believe the corpses were removed to hide evidence of mass killings. [BBC News]
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