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Absalon del Carmen Wegner Millar

Médico Cirujano — 31 years old.

Background

StatusValech-Rettig Commission Violation of Human Rights
DateDecember 13, 1973
Locationsan Felipe, V Valparaíso
Age31 years old
OccupationMédico Cirujano
AffiliationPC

Case summary

Absalon Wegner Millar, a 31-year-old surgeon and Health Director of San Felipe, was detained in late November 1973 due to his communist militancy and executed by the Army on December 13 of that year. The official version of an escape attempt was dismissed by the Rettig Report as implausible, given that he was unarmed and under heavy military guard near the prison.

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Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos[1]

On December 13, 1973, Ejército personnel killed two other people in San Felipe:

Absalón del Carmen WEGNER MILLAR, 31 years old, Director of the San Felipe Health Area and a doctor at the Putaendo Psychiatric Hospital, a communist militant, who was detained for the first time on September 12 or 13 for one day, being released without charges and with an order to return to his work at the hospital.

His second detention occurred in the final days of November, at which time he was placed at the disposal of the local military authority.

Rigoberto del Carmen ACHU LIENDO, 31 years old, Sectional Secretary of the Partido Socialista and Head of Social Development for San Felipe. He was detained on September 12 at a relative's house by military personnel from the Regimiento de Infantería Nº 3 Yungay, after having been summoned by a military decree.

He was held in the San Felipe Prison, from where he was regularly taken to be interrogated at the Investigaciones barracks by personnel from that department.

According to the official version provided by the Chief of the State of Siege Zone of the Aconcagua Province and Commander of the Regimiento de Infantería Nº 3 Yungay, when the detainees were being transported back to the prison from the Military Prosecutor's Office, the vehicle in which they were traveling broke down just 60 meters from the penal facility, requiring the journey to be continued on foot.

At that moment, one of the prisoners allegedly took advantage of the situation to "wrestle" the service weapon from a conscript, and the other to flee, with both being killed instantly.

The Commission could not accept this version, mainly due to the following circumstances:

– It is implausible that killing those affected was the only way to prevent their alleged escape, since they were unarmed and under heavy guard by personnel from the Regimiento de Infantería Nº 3 Yungay, and the patrol was immediately adjacent to the penitentiary facility, which had personnel trained to provide assistance in the supposed capture of escapees.

It should also be noted that it has been proven that the prisoners had been taken to the Military Prosecutor's Office in chains as a heightened security measure, and there is no reason to assume they were not returned to the prison in the same manner, unless their supposed escape was being prefigured in some way.

– The existence of credible eyewitnesses who indicated that the detainees were being guarded by an Ejército patrol on the way to the prison and that at a certain moment, without any attempt to escape, the military officials shot them in the back, subsequently finishing them off with further shots.

They further declared that the bodies were immediately loaded into a vehicle, and that Gendarmería personnel emerged from the prison facility at that same moment with buckets of water to wash the traces of blood from the sidewalk.

– Rigoberto Achú was in very poor health as a result of the systematic torture he was subjected to at the Investigaciones barracks from the very day of his detention on September 12, and as a consequence, he could not dress, eat, or move in a coordinated manner.

On the day of his execution, he was seen to be very physically deteriorated, with very low weight and noticeable hair loss. His condition made it implausible that he would try to flee.

– The version that Dr. Wegner had attempted to flee is not plausible, since, based on the background information and testimonies gathered by this Commission, it is demonstrated that he was a person who never attempted to evade military authorities.

After the events of September 11, he remained detained for one day in the San Felipe Prison, and once he was released, he continued living in the area, leading a public life, and working in the same service, despite having had the means to flee the area without anyone stopping him, as there were no charges against him, which remained unknown even after his second detention.

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How to cite this record

DondeEstan.cl (2026). Absalon del Carmen Wegner Millar. Retrieved on June 4, 2026, from https://dondeestan.cl/record/absalon-del-carmen-wegner-millar. Original sources: Museum of Memory (https://interactivos.museodelamemoria.cl/victims/?p=2060).