Chile must prosecute police, army for violence against protesters: U.N.

Chilean police and soldiers used excessive or unnecessary force to quell recent ...

GENEVA/SANTIAGO - Chilean police and soldiers used excessive or unnecessary force to quell recent demonstrations, committing serious human rights violations including unlawful killings and torture that should be prosecuted, the United Nations said on Friday.

Twenty-six people were killed during nearly two months of protests that began in October over a rise in metro fares but quickly spiraled out of control. Lorena Recabarren, Chile’s subsecretary of human rights, critiqued the report, telling reporters the government would issue specific corrections to what it saw as conclusions drawn from “innacurate information, or lack of updated information in the report.”

The U.N. team, working under U.N. rights boss and former Chile President Michelle Bachelet, said the government of President Sebastian Pinera had cooperated with its investigation. Bachelet, a Socialist, is a long-time political adversary of the center-right Pinera.

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