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Chile tries to identify victims' bodies forty years after Pinochet's coup
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Hundreds of people in Chile are still searching for signs of family members who went missing decades ago. For Chileans, September is an important month. On 11 September 1973, Augusto Pinochet carried out a coup d’état, unleashing a violent campaign against people on the political left. More than 3,000 were killed or disappeared. Decades later, bodies continue to be found, and the national Medical-Legal Service is trying to identify them, in the hope of ending years of uncertainty for victims’ families.
