"Chile's leftist president vows to seek repeal of dictatorship-era amnesty law" is an article produced by ABC news. This article is intriguing as it highlights the bill that protects most military officers from being prosecuted for the crimes they committed against the public during the dictatorship period (1973 - 1978). It emphasises that regardless of this bill the law was able to find loopholes to prosecute subordinates of Pinochet. An example of this detailed within the article is that people disappearing amounted to abduction which the officials were not legally protected for under the bill. Thus, this article goes on to talk about the importance of the law needing to be changed to hold officials involved in heinous crimes responsible before the courts and to give justice to those that were wronged under the dictatorship regime. It will be interesting to see how the Courts and the Government achieve this.
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