Rogelio Gustavo Ramírez Amestica
Estudiante — 18 years old.
Background
Rogelio Gustavo Ramírez Amestica
Estudiante — 18 years old.
Case summary
Rogelio Gustavo Ramírez Amestica was an 18-year-old student with no political affiliation who was executed by state agents on October 1, 1973. He was detained by a military patrol along with two other minors while they were playing foosball, after which he was brutally beaten and riddled with 12 gunshots while being forced to run.
Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos[1]
On October 1st, three minors were executed after being detained by a military patrol at an establishment where they were playing "taca taca" (foosball). The minors were:
Miguel Angel RIOS TRASLAVIÑA, 16 years old, student,
Rogelio Gustavo RAMIREZ AMESTICA, 18 years old, student, and
Marcos Orlando RIOS BUSTOS, 15 years old, student.
The youths were taken from that place out into the street in the presence of neighbors from the area. Multiple testimonies indicate that they were severely beaten by the uniformed men and forced to run, with two of them being riddled with bullets. The third continued running until reaching the Iquique bridge, where he was killed by another military patrol guarding that location.
Despite this being a public and notorious event, witnessed by a large part of the neighborhood, there was no official explanation regarding the facts.
The autopsies performed on the bodies indicate that they presented multiple gunshot wounds: 12 in the case of Rogelio Ramírez and 18 in the case of Miguel Ríos Traslaviña. There were 3 bullet impacts on the body of Marcos Ríos.
Having reliably established the circumstances and causes of the deaths, as well as the prior detention suffered by those affected, the Commission formed the conviction that the minors Miguel Angel Ríos, Rogelio Gustavo Ramírez, and Marcos Orlando Ríos were executed and that this constituted a grave violation of human rights, attributable to the actions of State agents.
References
- 1Museum of Memoryhttps://interactivos.museodelamemoria.cl/victims/?p=837