Ecuador: Criminal Complaint Filed Agaisnt Augusto Pinochet
27nov97
On November 26, 1997, at 3:30 PM, a group of human rights and community
leaders filed a criminal complaint against General Augusto Pinochet before
the Supreme Court of Justice of Ecuador for the death of four Ecuadorians
during the military dictatorship in Chile. Among the complaintants were
Leon Roldos Aguilera, an ex-vicepresident of Ecuador; Oswaldo Guayasamim,
a painter; Jorge Enrique Adoum, a writer; Julio Cesar Trujillo, ex-
Ombudsman of Ecuador; Alberto Acosta, economist; Elsie Monge, President of
the Ecumenical Commmission of Human Rights; Juan de Dios Parra, General
Secretary of the Latinoamerican Association for Human Rights; Alexis
Ponce, spokesman of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights; Nelsa
Curbelo, President of the Peace and Justice Service of Latin America;
Fernando Gutierrez, President of the Human Rights Commission of Guayaquil,
as well as other social and intellectual leaders and citizens of Ecuador.
The criminal complaint was filed by Attorneys Ernesto Lopez Friere, the
ex-President of the Constitutional Tribunal and Dr. Alejandro Ponce
Villacis.
The complaint accuses General Pinochet of the crimes of forced
disappearance of Jose Felix Garcia Franco, who was disappeared on
September 18, 1973, of the torture and qualified murder of Felipe Porfirio
Campos Carrillo and Freddy Jimmy Torres Villalba, murdered on September
20, 1973, and of Socrates Ponce Pacheco, murdered on September 12, 1973.
The complaint alleges that in all the four cases, General Augusto
Pinochet imposed all the difficulties and applied all limitations so as to
stop any possibility of investigation of the crimes and of punishing those
responsible.
Hector Romero Parducci, President of the Ecudadorian Supreme Court of
Justice, will have to rule on the opening of a summary investigation and
the criminal prosecution of Pinochet as well as other people responsible
for these crimes.
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