28
massive28 arbitrary and summary executions, torture (including rape, mainly of
women), and arbitrary detention at facilities not subject to legal control, forced
disappearances and other human right violations committed by State officials,
sometimes with the aid of civilians. Repression was applied in almost all regions of
the country.29
82(5) The first months of the de facto government were the most violent stage of
the repressive period. Exactly 1,823 out of 3,19730 total cases of identified victims of
executions and forced disappearances during the military rule took place in 1973.31
Moreover, “61 percent of the 33,221 arrests classified by the Comisión Nacional
sobre Prisión Política y Tortura (National Commission on Political Imprisonment and
Torture) refer to arrests made in 1973.”32 Said Commission pointed out that “more
than 94 percent of the victims of political imprisonment” alleged to have been
tortured by State officials.33
82(6) The victims of all these violations were renowned officials of the overthrown
government and important left-wing figures; ordinary and common militants;
political, trade union, community, student (university and high school education) and
indigenous leaders and heads; representatives of community-based organizations
participating in social claim movements. “However, [that] such political relationships
27
Cf. Report of the Comisión Nacional sobre prisión política y tortura (National Commission on
Political Imprisonment and Torture), page 177, (record of appendixes to the State’s final written
arguments, Appendix 4, folio 3583).
28
Cf. Report of the Comisión Nacional de la Verdad y Reconciliación (National Truth and
Reconciliation Commission), Part One, chapter II and Part Two, pages 15 to 104 (record of appendixes to
the State’s final written arguments, Appendix 2); and Report on the classification of victims of human
right violations and political violence of the Corporación Nacional de Reparación y Reconciliación (National
Reparation and Reconciliation Corporation), page 37, (record of appendixes to the State’s final written
arguments, Appendix 3, folio 2822).
29
Cf. Report of the Comisión Nacional de Verdad y Reconciliación (National Truth and Reconciliation
Commission), page 19 (record of appendixes to the State’s final written arguments, Appendix 2, folio
2089); Report on the classification of victims of human right violations and political violence of the
Corporación Nacional de Reparación y Reconciliación (National Reparation and Reconciliation Corporation)
(record of appendixes to the State’s final written arguments, Appendix 3); and Report of the Comisión
Nacional sobre Prisión Política y Tortura (National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture)
(record of appendixes to the State’s final written arguments, Appendix 4).
30
Cf. Chart 16 “Victims recognized by the State, classified as disappeared or dead,” Appendix 1 to
the Report on the classification of victims of human right violations and political violence of the
Corporación Nacional de Reparación y Reconciliación (National Reparation and Reconciliation Corporation),
page 576, (record of appendixes to the State’s final written arguments, Appendix 3, folio 3356).
31
Cf. Chart 17 “Complaints researched and victims recognized by the State, according to the year
in which the events occurred,” Appendix 1 to the Report on the classification of victims of human right
violations and political violence of the Corporación Nacional de Reparación y Reconciliación (National
Reparation and Reconciliation Corporation), page 577, (record of appendixes to the State’s final written
arguments, Appendix 3, folio 3357).
32
Cf. Report of the Comisión Nacional sobre Prisión Política y Tortura (National Commission on
Political Imprisonment and Torture), page 178, (record of appendixes to the State’s final written
arguments, Appendix 4, folio 3584).
33
Cf. Report of the Comisión Nacional sobre Prisión Política y Tortura (National Commission on
Political Imprisonment and Torture), page 177, (record of appendixes to the State’s final written
arguments, Appendix 4, folio 3583).
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