Juan Manuel Lira Morales
Empleado — 23 years old.
Background
Juan Manuel Lira Morales
Empleado — 23 years old.
Case summary
Juan Manuel Lira Morales, a 23-year-old employee with no political affiliation, died on September 12, 1973, one day after being wounded by gunfire from a military patrol. The attack occurred while he was walking on a public street in the población La Legua, at a time when there were no incidents or confrontations of any kind reported in the area.
Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos[1]
On September 12, 1973, Juan Manuel LIRA MORALES, 23 years old, an employee, died.
On September 11, the victim and his spouse were walking on a public street in the La Legua neighborhood—where no incidents were being reported at the time—when he was shot by military personnel traveling in a jeep.
Admitted to the Barros Luco Hospital, he passed away on the 12th. The autopsy report determined that "the cause of death is due to a gunshot wound which, upon traversing the abdomen, caused a laceration of the liver and right kidney with acute internal hemorrhage."
The Commission has formed the conviction that Juan Lira Morales was killed by agents of the State in violation of his human rights and through an abuse of power. This conviction is based on the fact that the victim was shot by a military patrol and died the following day as a result of those wounds, as documented in the autopsy protocol, and that at the time of the events, there were no incidents or confrontations occurring in the area.
References
- 1Museum of Memoryhttps://interactivos.museodelamemoria.cl/victims/?p=3203