Another mass grave found in Santiago
NZPA-Reuter Santiago A second mystery mass grave has been found near the Chilean capital of Santiago, a Church relief group has said.
The Solidarity Vicarate, a Roman Catholic group which helps track down missing people, said that an unknown number of bodies had been found by its members this week buried in a ravine 50km south-west of Santiago.
The same group three weeks ago uncovered bodies of 20 people in the oven of an abandoned lime kiln near
the capital. They had apparently been tied up and shot. Investigators are planning to interview relatives of people who have diss appeared since the military take-over in September 1973, in arrests and kidnaps widely blamed on the armed forces.
President Augusto Pinochet told reporters the discovery of the bodies was being" turned into a political issue. There had been casualties on both sides, he said, when the armed forces toppled the Leftist President Salvador Allende in 1973.
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