An international team of forensic experts on Monday began the exhumation of the remains of President Salvador Allende to determine whether he committed suicide, killed him, murdered or died fighting the military coup in 1973.
Santiago On a cold morning, the forensics, the trial judge and the two daughters of the president, with a red rose in his hand, descended the steps leading to the coffin with the bones of Allende, in the family mausoleum.
The exhumation was ordered by Judge Mario Carroza, in April after receiving a report of the Medical Service Legal (SML) which states "inconsistencies" between the official autopsy report _ordenada by police golpistas_ and analysis of Allende's body in the place of his death, at the presidential palace of La Moneda.
"For justice in Chile is a historic day ... after so many years investigating the death of a character so important for Chile, Latin America and the world," said the lawyer human rights activist, Eduardo Contreras .
Contreras was the one who filed the first lawsuit in Chile against the dictator Augusto Pinochet by human rights violations during his regime, 1973-1990, which left 3,065 dead opponents.
"starts today a process that could end it finally determines that it was a suicide or a murder is. The important thing is to know the truth, "the lawyer added.
Several politicians who went to the cemetery had to leave the tomb to make room for work to the experts.
On completion of the skills in the tomb, the bones are removed, some 500 meters to the old building of the SML.
Allende The official autopsy was conducted not in the MLS, as required by local law, but in the otolaryngology department of Military Hospital and was "witnessed by a small group of persons "authorized by the military prosecutor, according to the evidence left by their authors, doctors and José Luis Tobar Tomás Vásquez. Tobar
committed suicide a few years later, Vasquez continued in the MLS during the dictatorship, the four governments and the current center-right President Sebastián Piñera.
The doctor and Master of Forensic Sciences Ravanal Luis told The Associated Press that, after comparing the autopsy report with the police experts held on September 11, 1973, concluded that "there are injuries of different nature, caused by weapons different. "
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