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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Report No. 01a/88; Case No. 9755
Seventh-Fourth Session (5 – 16 September 1988)
Rodrigo Rojas DeNegri and Carmen Gloria Quintana Arancibia v. Chile
Resolution
12 September 1988
Rojas DeNegri v. Chile, Case 9755, Inter-Am. C.H.R., Report No. 01a/88,
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.74, doc. 10 rev. 1 (1987-1988)
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HAVING SEEN:
1.
The various communications received by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
reporting that on the morning of July 2, 1986, during a protest demonstration called by groups in
opposition to the Government of Chile, the youths, Rodrigo Rojas DeNegri and Carmen Gloria Quintana
Arancibia, were arrested in a neighborhood of Santiago by an army patrol, searched, beaten, held within
proximity of inflammable material, sprinkled with fuel, set on fire, and taken to a place on the outskirts of
the city where they were unable to receive medical care, and there they were abandoned.
2.
The subsequent death of Rodrigo Rojas DeNegri on July 6, 1986, as a result of burns received.
3.
The intervention of the 19th Criminal Court of Santiago, which received, on July 3, 1986, at
12:15 a.m. and 12:45 a.m. testimony from the victims (Appendix 1), who stated that a group of military
personnel had willfully set fire to them. This statement was later corroborated by Carmen Gloria Quintana
in Montreal, Canada, on March 12, 1987 (Appendix 2).
4.
The transfer of judicial records to the 15th Criminal Court of Santiago, which orders Department
OS-5 of the Carabineros Police to conduct an investigation, and the report prepared (Appendix 2A).
5.
The request by the Minister of the Interior calling for the appointment of an Ad Hoc Judge of the
Santiago Court of Appeals to investigate the complaint, and the ensuing appointment of Judge Alberto
Echavarria Lorca, who took charge of the proceedings on July 7, 1986.
6.
The information conveyed to the Supreme Court Judge of the 19th Criminal Court by Brigadier
General Carlos Ojeda Vargas, Commanding General of the Santiago Army Garrison, on July 9, 1986, to
the effect that there were no military forces in the sectors area and the events occurred (Appendix 3),
contrary to statements made by the very same military officer in an internal summary administrative
investigation of the Army that Regiment No. 10, Libertadores, (Appendix 4) was operating in the area.
7.
The official statement by the Commanding Officer of the Santiago Army Garrison on July 18,
1986, which states the following:
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