Chilean Judge to Question Pinochet About Murders
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A Chilean judge will question former dictator Augusto Pinochet next
week about his role in the murders of 19 people who opposed his rule, a
high-level court source said on Tuesday. The court-ordered
interrogation will be the first time the 88-year-old retired general is
forced to answer questions about human rights abuses since the Supreme
Court ruled in 2001 he was mentally incompetent to stand trial in a
different case. The country's highest court stripped Pinochet of his
immunity from prosecution last Thursday in a case involving the deaths
of 19 Chileans in the mid-1970s as part of Operation Condor, a joint
effort by South American dictators to wipe out dissidents. Some 3,000
people were killed or disappeared during Pinochet's 17-year military
rule, which ended in 1990. [more 
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