1999

   

Case

Date

Plaintiff

Attorneys

Summary

Status of Case

File

18

9 March 1999

b

b

Complaint for death of Benito de los Santos Tapia Tapia in Copiapo, a victim of the Caravan of Death.

Summary Investigation

A: Caravan of Death

19

15 April 1999

Christian Democrat Party Youth

b

Complaint for14 cases of Christian Democrat party members killed or disappeared

bb

bb

20

24 May 1999

b

Carmen Hertz, Alfonso Insunza

Complaint against Pinochet and Caravan of Death for acts of genocide against Carlos Berger Guralnic.

b

A: Caravan of Death

21

10 June 1999

b

Hiram Villagra, Hugo Gutiérrez

Complaint for aggravated abduction, homicide and illicit association in relation to the executions of 4 October 1973 in Valdivia

b

b

22

11 June 1999

Luisa Vera Torres and Lily Lavin Loyola

Hugo Gutierrez, Boris Paredes

Criminal complaint filed against the so-called Caravan of Death for the execution of Pablo Renan Vera Torres, Miguel Enriquez Muñoz Flores, Manuel Benito Plaza Arellano and Claudio Arturo Lavin Loyola. in the city of Cauquenes on 4 October 1973.

These four persons were arrested 2 October 1973 and brought to Investigations Police Headquarters of Cauquenes, where detective Jara tortured them. On 4 October they were taken by the Commando headed by Arellano Stark to "El Oriente" farm, where Claudio Manuel Lavin Loyola was executed. The fate and whereabouts of Manuel Muñoz Flores, Manuel Benito Plaza Arellano and Pablo Vera Torres is unknown.

b

A: Caravan of Death

24

28 June 1999

b

Adil Brkovic

Complaint for killing of State Defense Council lawyer Julio Cabezas Gacitua of Iquique in Oct 1973.

b

b

25

6 July 1999

Socialist Party

b

Complaint filed for death of M Mario Silva Iriarte, Jorge Peña Henn and Mario Alberto Ramirez Sepulveda

b

b

26

9 July 1999

b

Adil Brkovic

Eleven surviving victims of torture file a criminal complaint against Pinochet. They also charge former Army prosecutor FernandoTorres Silva for his responsibility at Villa Grimaldi in 1974.

b

b

27

26 July 1999

b

b

Complaint for homicide of Nicolas Chanes, executed at Pisagua.

b

b

28

26 July 1999

b

b

Complaint for homicide of Luis Aníbal Manriquez Wilden executed at Pisagua

b

b

29

27 July 1999

b

b

Com Complaint for disappearance of Marcelino Rolando Lamas Largo at Pisagua.

b

b

30

Julio 1999

b

b

Complaint for execution of Humberto Lizardi Flores at Pisagua

b

b

31

27 July 1999

b

b

Co Complaint for execution of German Eladio Palomino Lamas at Pisagua.

b

b

32

17 August 1999

Joan Turner and Amanda Turner

Nelson Caucoto

Complaint for death of Victor Jara.

b

b

33

19 August 1999

b

Nelson Caucoto

Complaint for disappearance of David Silberman Gurovich.

b

b

34

21 August 1999

Family members of Humberto Menanteau

Nelson Caucoto

Complaint for death of Humberto Menanteau Aceituno, killed in December 1975.

b

b

35

1 September 1999

b

Nelson Caucoto

Complaint for disappearance of Bernardo De Castro Lopez on 14 September 1974.

b

b

36

2 September 1999

b

b

Complaint for arrest and disappearance of brothers Carlos Fredy and Aldo Gonzalo Perez Vargas

b

b

37

8 September 1999

b

Hector Salazar

Complaint for disappearance of lawyer Ruben Guillermo Cabezas Pares in January 1974 in Quillota.

b

b

38

9 September 1999

b

Hector Salazar

Complaint against Caravan of Death members for death of doctor Hernan Arturo Henriquez Aravena, inTemuco on Oct. 5, 1973.

b

A: Caravan of Death

39

10 September 1999

Org. of Relatives of the Disappeared

Francisco Bravo

Complaint for 119 disappeared persons, a case known as Operation Colombo which their deaths were orchestrated and publicized in Argentine and Brazilian press as the consequence of alleged confrontations of the left.

b

b

40

15 September 1999

b

Nelson Caucoto

Complaint for homicide, torture and illegal inhumation of Eduardo Paredes, Enrique Paris and Sergio Contreras, all of whom were taken from La Moneda on the day of the coup.

b

b

41

15 September 1999

b

Nelson Caucoto

Complaint for torture and homicide of journalist Jose Carrasco Vasquez, member of the MIR, on December 8, 1986.

b

b

42

26 September 1999

Org. of Relatives of Executed Political Prisoners

Adil Brkovic

Complaint filed on behalf of all executed political prisoners. Also names as defendants Sergio Onofre Jarpa and Sergio Fernandez, currently Senate members.

b

b

43

28 September 1999

b

b

Complaint for disappearance of Juan

Carlos Perelman Ide.

b

b

44

5 October 1999

b

Adil Brkovic

Complaint for abduction, torture, and homicide of Rodolfo Fuenzalida Fernandez, Socialist Party member.

b

b

45

9 October 1999

b

b

Two new cases filed: for death of Pedro Emilio Perez Flores and Jaime Segundo Palleras Calderon in Copiapo, by the Caravan of Death.

b

A: Caravan of Death

46

20 October 1999

b

Nelson Caucoto

Complaint for disappearance of Arsenio Poupin Oissel, Presidential advisor taken from La Moneda.

b

b

47

25 October 1999

b

b

Complaint for execution and illegal inhumation on 28 de June 1974 of Manuel Sanhueza Mellado, whose body was found at Pisagua in 1990.

b

b

48

25 October 1999

b

b

Complaint for execution of Mario Morris Barrios, on 11 October 1973, whose body was found at Pisagua in 1990.

b

b

49

30 November 1999

Family members of Ivan Insunza Bascuñan and Carlos Godoy Lagarrigue

b

Complaint for illicit association and abduction of Ivan Insunza Bascuñan and Carlos Godoy Lagarrigue, arrested August 1976.

b

b

50

09 December 1999

b

Hugo Gutierrez

Complaint for responsibility in the deaths on 10 November 1973 of 4 persons in Temuco, accused of attacking Army Regiment Tucapel. The victims were: Florentino Molina Ruiz, Juan Chavez Rivas, Juan Carlos Ruiz Mancilla, Victor Hugo Valenzuela Velasquez, Pedro Mardones Jofre, Amador Montero Mosquera.

Summary

Various

51

10 December 1999

Hernan Sarmiento Sabater and Arnoldo Laurie Luengo family members

Julia Urquieta, Federico Aguirre

Criminal complaint presumed against Augusto Pinochet and all those responsible for the crime of torture inflicted upon Heraclio Sarmiento Sabater in the Chorrillos Regiment and in the Talca prison, when he voluntarily presented himself upon citation by military officials. Also for the disappearanceof his brother Hernan Sarmiento Sabater as well as Arnoldo Laurie Luengo, both of whom were arrested 28 July 1974 by Parral police and brought to the local police station. Last seen alive in the DINA detention center of 38 Londres Street in Santiago.

Summary

CD: Colonia Dignidad

52

14 December 1999

b

Nelson Caucoto

Complaint for disappearance of Fabian Ibarra Cordoba, Sonia Rios Pacheco, Alfredo Garcia Vega, Carlos Rioseco Espinoza, Horacio Carabantes Olivares, Maria Isabel Gutierrez Martinez, Abel Vilches Figueroa and Elias Villar Quijon, all MIR members arrested in Valparaiso, Viña del Mar and Quilpue, between 17 and 27 of January 1975 by DINA agents.

b

b

53

29 December 1999

b

Nelson Caucoto

Complaint of disappearance of Gloria Esther Lagos Nilsson on 26 August 1974, who was taken from her home. At the time of arrest, she was pregnant with her fourth child.

b

b

54

30 December 1999

b

Nelson Caucoto

Complaint for disappearance of Alfredo Rojas Castañeda on 4 March 1975 by DINA agents.

b

b

   

 

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