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The Rettig Report, officially The National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation Report, is a 1991 report by a commission designated by Chilean President Patricio Aylwin (from the Concertación) detailing human rights abuses resulting in deaths or disappearances that occurred in Chile during the years of military dictatorship under Augusto ...
According to the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation (Rettig Commission) and the National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture (Valech Commission), the number of direct victims of human rights violations in Chile accounts for around 30,000 people: 27,255 tortured and 2,279 executed. In addition, some 200,000 people suffered exile ...
Chile The National Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Comisión Nacional de Verdad y Reconciliación; [6] popularly known as the "Rettig Report"), created in April 1990, investigated deaths and disappearances, particularly for political reasons, under Augusto Pinochet's rule. The report was released in 1991.
Raúl Rettig in 1969. Raúl Rettig Guissen (16 May 1909, in Temuco – 30 April 2000, in Santiago), was a Chilean politician and lawyer. A member of the Radical Party, between 1938 and 1940 he served as undersecretary of the interior and, later, at the foreign affairs ministry. He was elected to the Senate in 1949.
In 1991 the commission delivered the Rettig Report, which acknowledged "more than 3,200 victims, including dead and missing, left behind by the dictatorship". [ 4 ] In 2023, the government of Gabriel Boric recognized the disappearance of 1469 persons, of whom only the fate of 307 has been so far established.
The archive contains information about 3,877 human rights violation cases that were heard by Chile's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. [3] [4] This includes around a thousand photographs of missing detainees, as well as audiovisual and press material published between 1973 and 1995 on human rights violations committed during the regime of Augusto Pinochet.
The Valech Report, officially known as The National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture Report, documents instances of abuses committed in Chile between 1973 and 1990 by agents of Augusto Pinochet's military regime. Published on November 29, 2004, the report presents the findings of a six-month investigation.
Committee of Cooperation for Peace in Chile (1973–1975) [1] National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation (1990–1991); better known as the Rettig Commission; Vicariate of Solidarity (1976–1990) [1]