Govt to look into 'disappearances’
NZPA-Reuter Santiago (Chile) About 80 people have been arrested after a clash in the city centre in Santiago between supporetrs and opponents of hunger strikers protesting against their relatives’ unexplained disappearance. The clash came as about 200 relatives of missing persons prepared to call off their 18-day hunger strike in [response to an appeal by (Chilean bishops. The Rev. Cristian Pretch, spokesman of the Solidarity Vicarate which assists politii cal prisoners and their famiI lies, said on Tuesday night that the group agreed to end (its hunger strike soon and I vacate churches it was Oc-
I copying after the military ) Government told Chilean bishops it would look into s 'the disappearances. 11 But informed sources said - that the group was waiting s for an official Government ri statement pledging to int vestigate cases of missing 1 'persons. The protest has sparked! t similar hunger strikes in - (several foreign capitals. f The Chilean Interior Min-' iI ister (Mr Sergio Fernandez) y | told reporters on Tuesday! ' that the Government w'as I . considering issuing an offi,’jcial statement. The Govern-, - ment had previously claimed -it had no knowledge of; t people missing since the! 1 military overthrow of the I i Marxist President, Salvador - Allende, in 1973.
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