Chile sentence to two current servicemen by the death of the father of Bachelet

After three years of research, the judge Mario Chariot has been sentenced to two Chilean current servicemen who have tortured and killed in March 1974 the general Alberto Bachelet Martínez, father of the socialist president Michelle Bachelet. "Justice was finally done, this is not a revenge", has been brought to CNN Chile, the mother of the ruling, Ángela Jeria, 88-year-old, who since the beginning of the dictatorship in 1973 assumed an active role in the struggle for human rights and the restoration of democracy. "The important thing is that you know the truth and that means that the guilty have to assume".

Justice has determined that Edgar Cevallos Jones (82 years) and Ramon Caceres Jorquera (80), both colonels in withdrawal of the Chilean Air Force (FACh), must meet a effective penalty of prison. In accordance with the judgment, "we were able to determine that the general Bachelet, the day before his death, on 12 March 1974, six months after the coup of Pinochet, commented that he was subjected to an intense and acute interrogation session, with psychological coercion and physical demands". The general had 50 years and some health problems linked to deficiencies cardiorespiratory. The research of judge Chariot indicates that "there was a direct and obvious link between the death of the victim and his last interrogation, any time that this is what triggers the decompensation of its cardiac pathology, secondary to a state of physical stress and mental consent".

On 11 September 1973, Bachelet was arrested and mistreated by their subordinates, although at night, he was released. Three days later, however, again he was made prisoner at his home, where he lived with his wife and the second of their two children, Michelle, that at that time I studied medicine at the University of Chile and militant in the Socialist Youth. Since that time, began a phase of prison that kept the general Bachelet among the public prison, his house and the detention center of the AGA, where he was subjected to "unlawful".

In the framework of the research of the judge Chariot, both Bachelet and her mother delivered numerous precedents on the torture to the general which had caused a cardiorespiratory arrest in the public prison on 12 March 1974, 40 years ago. The ruling noted in 2011 that "the physical duress consisted in stand many hours, hands tied behind his back, not to receive neither food nor water, nor allowed to go to the bathroom, however to run a water faucet, in addition to put a hood on his head". The widow added before the Chilean justice that "one of the things that you agonized was when they had it in the Academy of War during many hours of foot and hooded and with hands tied behind their backs. And, as I couldn't breathe in the normal way, because the hood is Diedrick between the mouth and nose, i was looking for any wall to support the forehead and wtih the hood that will hang without preventing him from breathing", as it says in Daughters of general.