translated from Spanish: Tribute to Stange: widow of victim in the “Degollados Case” filed appeal for protection against Carabineros

Estela Ortiz, widow of José Manuel Parada, a victim in the “Degollados Case”, filed an appeal of protection against Carabineros de Chile, headed by General Director Mario Rozas, after learning that the Academy of Police Sciences of the institution will be named after former General Rodolfo Stange, former leader of the Military Board.
“Carabineros does not help to reconcile the country or honor the victims of yesterday and today. They have never apologised for their actions, which have left a fissure in our history. Every so often they perform provocative actions, which divide Chile,” said Estela Ortiz.
The legal action was sponsored by lawyers Nelson Caucoto, Pablo Fuenzalida and Francisco Bustos, and in it demands to terminate the tribute and that measures be taken to prevent a recurrence of similar events.
The former executive secretary of the National Children’s Council detailed that in the context of the investigation of the “Degollados Case”, Carabineros maintained an attitude of cover-up, and recalled that “one of the highest officers who helped hide the truth was the then Deputy Director, former Director and member of the Military Board, since August 1985, Rodolfo Stange”.
“I feel like they beat me, my children and grandchildren again. I feel helplessness, pain, anger and indignation. They ask us to forgive, to turn the sheet…can we?” said Ortiz.
In the “Degollados Case”, on March 30, 1985, José Manuel Parada, Manuel Guerrero and Santiago Nattino were kidnapped, tortured and killed. In this context, Minister Milton Juica denounced Stange for the offences of non-compliance with military duties and obstruction of justice for his role in the inquiry of the deaths.
During Stange’s tenure, crimes were committed to crimes against humanity, as recognized by the Chilean State, among others, in the report of the National Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as in the report of the National Commission on Political Prison and Torture.

Original source in Spanish

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