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Encyclopedia > Rettig Report

The Rettig Report, officially The National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation Report, is a report encompassing human rights abuses resulting in death or disappearance committed in Chile during the years of military rule under Augusto Pinochet, which began on September 11, 1973 and ended on March 11, 1990. Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... General Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte[1] (born November 25, 1915) was head of the military government that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. ... September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... 11 March is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


The report established that around 3,000 were killed or disappeared during the dictatorship (the number had been presumed to be much higher, particularly by human-rights groups and Chileans who opposed the dictatorship). The report is today generally accepted by the majority of the country, if with misgivings due to the nature of the problem and the circumstances.


In February 1991, the eight-member National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, established in 1990 by then-President Patricio Aylwin, released its report. The "National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation Report" is popularly known as the Rettig Report for former Senator Raúl Rettig, president of the commission. Other members of the commission were Jaime Castillo Velasco, José Luis Cea Egaña, Mónica Jiménez de la Jara, Laura Novoa Vásquez, José Zalaquett Daher, Ricardo Martín Díaz, and Gonzalo Vial Correa. 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Patricio Aylwin Azócar (born November 26, 1918) was the president of Chile after its return to democratic rule in 1990, following the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. ...


See also

Monsignor Valech delivers the report to President Lagos The Valech Report (officially The National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture Report) was a study published on November 29, 2004 that detailed abuses committed in Chile between 1973 and 1990 by agents of Augusto Pinochets military regime. ... The Chilean coup détat of September 11, 1973 was a watershed event in the history of Chile and the Cold War. ... General Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte[1] (born November 25, 1915) was head of the military government that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. ... Salvador Allende Gossens (July 26, 1908–September 11, 1973) was President of Chile from 1970 until 1973, when he died of a gunshot wound, under circumstances that remain a matter of dispute, during the violent Chilean coup of 1973. ... Truth and reconciliation commissions, under various names, are occasionally set up by states emerging from periods of internal unrest, civil war, or dictatorship. ...

External links

  • English translation of the report
  • Document of the report (Spanish original)

  Results from FactBites:
 
Remember-Chile: General Pinochet and human rights abuses - Pinochet for Beginners (2303 words)
Although the Chilean panel's report is not yet widely available, its publication is bound to have [a] cathartic impact on a sophisticated society in which many members of the elite refused to believe that the authorities could perpetrate such horrors.
The report was strongly critical of the military's claim that Chile was in a state of war after the coup, which had been the justification of the continued activity of military courts.
On the recommendation of the Rettig report, a follow-up organisation, the Reparation and Reconciliation Corporation, was established on 8th February 1992.
AMW (2864 words)
The report is a generous and dignified document which does not soften the edges of the events it describes while placing them in a coherent social and political framework.
Apart from the milestone represented by the commission's report, the impediments to truth and justice in cases of past abuse remained unchanged in Chile during 1991, with one sole exception.
The commission's report delivered a large portion of the truth, to be sure, but the commission could not establish such crucial information as the perpetrators' identities and the whereabouts of missing bodies; such information may be possible to establish only in court.
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