translated from Spanish: Case Conference 1: condemn 53 agents of Pinochet’s dictatorship by death of Communist militants

The Minister on visit to causes for violations of the human rights of the Court of appeals of Santiago, Miguel Vázquez Plaza, sentenced 53 repressive agents of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship for its responsability ilidad in the crime of 8 militants of the Communist Party in 1976, on the Ridge called the episode “Conference C” or “Lecture 1”.
The victims were Mario Zamorano Donoso, Onofre Muñoz Poutays, Uldarico Donaire Cortez, Jaime Donato Avendaño, Elisa Escobar Cepeda, Lenin Diaz Silva, Eliana Espinoza Fernández and Víctor Díaz López, all of the Communist Party.
Those convicted include several inmates from Punta Peuco, as the Brigadiers (r) of army Miguel Septimo Martchenko and Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, as well as Carlos José Leonardo López Tapia, Juan Hernán Morales Salgado and Orlando of the Tránsito Altamirano SANHUEZA the rest of those convicted were cited by the human rights of the investigations Police Brigade, in order to practise the notifications.
Modus operandi according to established research, all victims of the process were arrested to be interrogated and tortured because of his political activism, in order to obtain information regarding their activities of party and, in particular, the identification later other members of the Communist underground.
“These constraints not ceased until obtaining the required information or, the unconsciousness of the victims,” said the judgement handed down judgment against the exagentes of State for the crime of qualified kidnapping.
Joint action by various agents of the barracks, which with a plastic bag covered his head and amarraron it around the neck, preventing him from breathing, was used for killing them, which led to his death by asphyxiation.
Once confirmed his death, many opponents were placed in thick polyethylene bags, which amarraron with wires around your waist, tying it to a piece of rail to be pitcher to the sea.
In this same vein, the judge Vázquez Plaza established bodies to the sea launch was a systematic practice used by security officials since the beginning of 1974 until 1978.
These facts are credited by the different stories of staff of the army command of aviation, including aviation mechanics and maintenance staff, that account for these operations called “Military secrets”, which describes the mode in that models Puma SA 330 loaded packages, preferably in helicopters.

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