Weekly Report - 3 February 2011 (WR-11-05)

He was found dead by soldiers after they stormed the presidential palace of La Moneda. But controversy has raged ever since 11 September 1973 over whether Chile's President Salvador Allende committed suicide, as the official autopsy maintained, with a gun given to him by Cuba's President Fidel Castro, as legend has it, or whether he was killed by the military. The Chilean judiciary will now investigate for the first time the circumstances of Allende's death during the coup d'état which ushered in a 17-year dictatorship under General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). This landmark case is just one of 726 human rights-related crimes in which the victims or their relatives never filed suit and which the judiciary will now investigate.

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