Ex-employees DINA accused of involvement in the disappearance and killing of 16 people. The court in Chile sentenced 106 former officers of the special services and the military to various terms of imprisonment for abductions and murders in the mid-1970s during the reign of Augusto Pinochet. All those sentenced worked in the National Intelligence Agency (DINA) created by Pinochet and took part in the special operation "Colombo" directed against the representatives of the opposition. Ex-employees DINA accused of involvement in the disappearance and killing of 16 people. As the judge noted, all those killed were members of the Socialist Party or left-wing activists. They were arrested in Santiago from June 1974 to January 1975. Then they were taken to the interrogation centers, after which no one saw them alive. According to the verdict, the defendants received from one and a half to 20 years in prison, but many of them are already serving time for other charges. During the reign of Pinochet (1973-1990), about 3,000 people disappeared or died in Chile, many were forced to flee abroad. During Operation Colombo, 119 Chilean Oppositionists were missing.

The authorities explained their disappearance by the fact that they were deported from the country and killed by their former associates or employees of foreign special services. Pinochet came to power in 1973 as a result of a military coup that toppled the socialist president, Salvador Allende. Augusto Pinochet died on December 10, 2006. Earlier, the CIA published a dirt on Pinochet.

Original article: More than 100 employees of Pinochet's special services were convicted in Chile.