It’s been almost a year since former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet died but today police captured one of his henchmen, Retired Gen. Raul Iturriaga, a fugitive general who fled in June before he was to start a five-year jail term. He was caught in the resort town of Vina del Mar, in an apartment. His sentence stems from a kidnapping of a leftist opponent of the Pinochet regime, Luis San Martin. When the general fled he left behind a videotape declaring his innocence and claiming to be the victim of “an arbitrary, biased, unconstitutional and unjust verdict.”
Former members of Pinochet’s armed forces often complain of being victimized and persecuted for human rights abuses since Chile returned to democracy in 1990.

Pobrecitos, if only more of the real victims could speak up. Oh wait, that’s right they can’t, because so many of them are dead or still “disappeared”.

Via / CNN