
Nine former agents of late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime asked forgiveness for their crimes on Friday — a first for Chile — but victims’ families rejected the gesture as a ploy.
The apology came in the form of a private religious ceremony at the Punta Peuco prison, where some 100 former regime agents are serving sentences for the kidnappings, killings and torture perpetrated during Pinochet’s rule from 1973 to 1990.
The nine convicts included Raul Iturriaga, a high-ranking official in Pinochet’s political police.
“God is doing something extraordinary in this country. This would not have been possible until recently,” Anglican priest Pablo Alvarez told journalists after the ceremony, which was closed to the press.
But dozens of victims’ family members protested outside the prison, rejecting the ceremony as a hollow bid to obtain a pardon or early release.
source: GULF NEWS
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