Sisters: Former Chilean Army chief tortured us as children
Sisters: Former Chilean Army chief tortured us as children
Published: Sept. 26, 2013 at 1:20 PM
SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Three sisters in Chile say they were tortured by the former head of the army as children in 1973, shortly after the coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power.
Juan Emilio Cheyre, who tried to distance the military from the Pinochet regime when he commanded Chile's army from 2006 to 2006, faces several allegations of human rights abuses as a young officer during the coup, The Santiago Times reported. He resigned as head of the electoral service this year because of allegations he kidnapped a young boy whose parents had been killed in the 1973 military takeover.
Natacha, Yelena and Marianela Monroy Rodríguez say they were 1, 3 and 8 in October 1973 when their home was raided by a group of soldiers led by Cheyre. Their father was already under arrest and the soldiers had come to arrest their mother.
"The raid was violent, they broke all the windows of the house, broke all the furniture," Yelena wrote in an open letter earlier this year. She said the girls were told to stand against a wall and Cheyre ordered the soldiers guarding them to hit them with the butts of their guns if they moved.
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Chile’s ex election and Army head at center of child torture case
Wednesday, 25 September 2013 12:32
Written by Charlotte Karrlsson-Willis
Embattled Juan Emilio Cheyre faces claims that he participated in the detention and torture of the children of a political prisoner during the dictatorship.
Former commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army and recently resigned head of the Electoral Service (Servel), Juan Emilio Cheyre, faces yet another human rights case from his time as a lieutenant during Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. In the latest case initiated by a judge this week, three sisters claim he and two other officers detained and tortured them when they were children in 1973.
Natacha, Yelena and Marianela Monroy Rodríguez say that they were taken and tortured after Cheyre and other military personnel entered their home in October 1973, destroying everything and arresting their mother. They were 1, 3 and 8 years old at the time, respectively.
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Her father had already been arrested when he was out of the house and her mother, Eliana de Jesús Rodríguez Dubó, was being interrogated about weapons the military believed she was hiding as part of an alleged “Plan Z” organized by militants in the area.
http://www.santiagotimes.cl/chile/human-rights-a-law/26757-chiles-ex-election-and-army-head-at-center-of-child-torture-case
