Finally!

Chilean Judge Charges Pinochet in Rights Case

SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - A Chilean judge on Monday formally charged former dictator Augusto Pinochet with homicide and kidnapping in one of many pending cases related to human rights abuses committed during his 17-year rule.
"General Pinochet was declared mentally fit to stand trial in Chile," Special Judge Juan Guzman told reporters. Pinochet's defense had tried to argue he was not mentally competent to face the charges.
Pinochet, who resides in a Santiago mansion and recently turned 89, could be placed under house arrest after formal notification of the charges, which usually takes a day.
Pinochet's attorneys plan to appeal Guzman's decision. In an earlier human rights case, his defense lawyers successfully kept him from being tried when the Supreme Court ruled that his mild dementia made him mentally incompetent.
The homicide and kidnapping charges filed on Monday relate to nine disappearances and one death that occurred in the 1970s as part of Operation Condor, an intelligence-sharing network of South American dictators who helped each other hunt down dissidents.


This man is evil!!! Why did it take this long the man has lived a great life all this time! What is wrong with them! I remember songs in the late 1980's by Sting singing about this awful thing(not a man or human). Err ! Well better late then never :)