SANTIAGO, Sept 12 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — Chilean President Gabriel Boric announced a National Search Plan for more than a thousand persons who disappeared during the dictatorship (1973-1990) and whose whereabouts are still unknown.
“There are 1,192 disappeared detainees who still we do not know where they are, it is not acceptable, it is not tolerable, we cannot naturalize them,” said the president during a ceremony at the La Moneda palace to commemorate the 49th anniversary of the coup against Salvador Allende.
On Sept 11, 1973, the Chilean army carried out a military coup to depose the Popular Unity government and installed General Augusto Pinochet in power.
During the 17 years of military dictatorship, more than 3,200 people were murdered or disappeared, and to date there are hundreds of families who still do not know what became of their loved ones.
The National Search Plan will work closely with the organizations of relatives of the victims, assured the president.
Before a group of guests at La Moneda, Boric recalled that “49 years ago these walls witnessed a serene firmness with which a group of Chilean men and women tried to defend democratic institutions, while being overwhelmed by the force of arms.”
Today we remember Allende, but not only him, added the head of state and referred to those who suffered humiliation, persecution or exile, the victims of repression and those who fought to recover democracy.
Memory, he said, is not a purely intellectual act, an object from the past, but a mobilizing exercise. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA
