2. CASES OF DEATHS DUE TO IMPROPER USE OF FORCE OR ABUSE OF POWER WITH THE TOLERANCE OF THE AUTHORITY FOR WHICH CONVICTION WAS REACHED

a) Methodological warning

Due to the scarcity of background information and evidence that could be gathered, and the fact that these were isolated situations, which hinders their contextual analysis, the cases of death due to the indicated causes receive a different treatment than the rest of the cases declared with conviction by this Commission.

This consists of mentioning only the names of the victims in this part of the Report, without including an account of each one of them.

This is without prejudice to their inclusion, in the same terms as the other cases with conviction, in Volume II of this Report.

b) Different types of cases included in these causes.

b.1) Deaths due to improper use of force b.1.1) Deaths due to excessive use of force

This category includes cases in which there was a lack of proportionality between the force used by the authority and the situation that it was intended to prevent, which in principle justified its use.

Among the deaths due to excessive use of force, it is worth noting, among others:

– Those caused by shots fired by State agents, often without prior warning, against unarmed passersby who, instinctively, fled upon seeing them approach;

– Those caused by disproportionate forms of repression, mainly shots, often without prior warning, carried out by State agents against people who were only participating in public demonstrations or distributing propaganda in opposition to the military regime;

– Those caused by shots fired by State agents, often without prior warning, against people who were only violating the curfew, without any other sign of danger;

– Those caused by shots fired by State agents, also often without prior warning, against people who were surprised while committing a crime that did not rationally require such a measure.

It is necessary to point out that the military or police institutions dismissed the officials involved in most of these cases, passing the background information to the Military Courts, which is irrelevant for the purposes of their classification as human rights violations.

The names of the people who died as a consequence of the excessive use of force by the authority are as follows:

ACEVEDO CISTERNAS, Eduardo Bernabé

ACUÑA BALLESTEROS, Reinaldo Enrique

ANTIMAN NAHUELQUIN, Rubén Armando

ARANA SALDAÑA, Percy Max

BAEZA ZENTENO, Linfor del Carmen

BARRAZA HENRIQUEZ, Eduardo Octavio

BARRIENTOS AÑAZCO, Hugo Rolando

BECKER ALFARO, Víctor Hugo

CABEDO AGUILERA, Jorge

CARO BENITEZ, Ricardo Alejandro

CASTILLO ARCAYA, Roberto

CASTILLO OYARCE, Ricardo Sergio

CAUTIVO AHUMADA, Salvador Fidel

CONTRERAS GONZALEZ, Jorge Edilio

CONTRERAS GONZALEZ, Juan Orlando

CONTRERAS MENARES, Manuel Andrés

CONTRERAS PLOTSQUI, Exequiel Zigomar

CORREA ORTIZ, Hernán

CORTES NAVARRO, Andrés Nicanor

DELPERO PANIZZA, Bruno

ESCOBAR FERRADA, Manuel Angel

ESCOBAR LAGOS, Lorena del Pilar

ESPINOLA MUÑOZ, Juan Carlos

FARIAS NARANJO, José Carlos

FRES GALLARDO, Gonzalo Elis

GAETE AVILA, Miguel Segundo

GARRIDO QUEULO, Christian Leandro

GONZALEZ FREDES, Fernando Dionisio

GUTIERREZ GUTIERREZ, María Cristina

JARA CORTES, Carlos Eduardo

MAIGRET BECERRA, Mauricio

MENDEZ VASQUEZ, Laura Rosa

MORALES CHAVEZ, Enrique Segundo

MORALES SANTOS, José Eduardo

NAVARRO SUBIABRE, Nibaldo

OBANDO GALETOVIC, Iván

OPAZO LARA, Luis Humberto

ORTIZ CID, Giovanna de las Mercedes

PEREIRA LUNA, Sergio Omar

PEREZ ESPINOZA, Víctor Omar

PEREZ VALDEBENITO, Roberto Andrés

RANDOLPH SEGOVIA, José Rodolfo Rigoberto

REYES ARZOLA, Marco Aurelio

REYES CASTILLO, Javier Esteban

RIQUELME CASTILLO, Luis Fernando

RODRIGUEZ LOPEZ, Armando

ROJAS PEARCE, Rodrigo Hugo

SANTANDER ZUÑIGA, Omar Hernán

TAPIA AGUILERA, René Hernán

ULLOA SAEZ, José Iván

VARGAS LIZAMA, Pedro Jaime

VASQUEZ PEÑA, Hugo Hernán

WINLO BARRIOS, Víctor Hugo

ZAVALA BARRA, Rubén Eurico