(11 Sep 2021) The Chilean national police dispersed demonstrators in Santiago on Saturday, during the annual protest on the anniversary of the military coup that ousted the government of Salvador Allende in 1973.
A small group set fire to a car and a gasoline station while peaceful protesters marched; the police put out the fire.
During recent years, Chilean security forces have been part of repeated controversies over allegations of police brutality.
But the recent widespread allegations are longtime remakrs by the relatives of those killed, detained, or forcefully disappeared by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Lorena Pizarro, who leads a group of relatives of those detained and disappeared by security forces, said most police abuses reported during protests should not go unpunished.
"Chile now rises and can say enough of injustice," Pizarro said.
According to government figures, during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, at least 3,095 people were killed, and tens of thousands more were tortured or jailed for political reasons.
Chilean courts have appointed special judges on human rights violations, with 447 defendants sentenced and 1,328 more put on trial between 2000 and 2018.
An amnesty law issued by Pinochet in 1978 shielded offenders who committed human rights abuses during the dictatorship's first five years, but has also not been applied since 1990, leading to the prosecution of hundreds of others.
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