Article: Chilean appellate court considering whether former dictator Pinochet must be tried

EDUARDO GALLARDO, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
05-13-2004
Dateline: SANTIAGO, Chile
A Chilean appellate court opened hearings Thursday on a new request to try former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet for alleged human rights abuses during his 1973-90 regime.

Human rights lawyers urged the court to try Pinochet in connection with the deaths of several Chileans in the so-called "Operation Condor," a repression plan implemented by the military dictatorships that ruled South America's southern cone nations in the 1970s and 1980s.

But prospects for the 88-year-old Pinochet ever facing trial remain dim after the Supreme Court ruled in 2002 that he was mentally and physically unfit to stand ...

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