39) Report No. 1484, (726 to 732) insofar as it contains statements by: b) Pedro María Rojas Vásquez (731) who was assigned to the CNI under the operational name “ Marcos Aravena Ramírez ”, nicknamed “ Cabezón Marcos ”, in 1982 they moved to the Borgoño barracks and he joined the “Blanco” group and in 1985 the “Café” group .

Source: Judiciary, June 4, 2012

Operation Albania del Sur: the wait for justice by the victims' families

Between August 23 and 24, 1984, seven MIR members died in the cities of Concepción, Valdivia, and Los Ángeles in staged confrontations. The operation known as Alfa Carbón has only seen two individuals held accountable before the courts: Álvaro Corbalán and Marcos Derpich.

However, the families of the murdered men hope that the prosecution will be expanded to include 13 other former CNI agents. Today, their families and friends remember them in the south. In the Vega Monumental sector of Concepción, at a monolith erected to remember the seven members of the MIR murdered 29 years ago, Tamara Lagos will be present today.

Despite feeling that justice has not yet been served for her father's death, she will not commemorate the sadness. “These are days of remembrance, but above all of gathering, laughter, and much affection.

On the day of their deaths, we celebrate their lives,” says Tamara, daughter of Mario Lagos Rodríguez, one of those killed in the operation. Mario's name is added to those of Luciano Humberto Aedo Arias (30 years old); Nelson Adrián Herrera Riveros (31), murdered in front of the Vega Monumental before numerous witnesses alongside Mario Lagos.

Mario Ernesto Mujica Barros (32) was executed in his home in Los Ángeles. Rogelio Humberto Tapia de la Puente (31) and Raúl Jaime Barrientos Matamala (24) were murdered in a “confrontation” in Valdivia; as was Juan José Boncompte Andreu (31), murdered in his home, also in Valdivia.

All of them were murdered between August 23 and 24, 1984, in the cities of Concepción, Valdivia, and Los Ángeles. The crimes were committed within the framework of Operation Alfa Carbón, which has also been known as Albania del Sur, in allusion to the Corpus Christi massacre, in which the CNI murdered twelve members of the Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez in June 1987. “For a long time, this case did not move because it was in the military justice system, and those who testified did so under false names.

In 1998, it was almost dismissed because the Military Prosecutor said it was nearly impossible to determine their identities,” says Javiera Herrera, daughter of Nelson Herrera. Now they hope that the justice system will rule on expanding the prosecution for “illicit association” to 13 former CNI agents involved in the execution of the seven MIR members; a process in which, until now, only two of the accused were indicted on June 20, 2012: Álvaro Corbalán and Marcos Derpich.

THE PROCESS

Javiera details the development of the events of that day. On August 23, 1984, in front of the Vega Monumental in Concepción, the bus in which her father and Mario Lagos were traveling was intercepted by about thirty CNI agents, who, after intimidating those traveling in the vehicle, threw tear gas canisters inside.

That day, both Mario Lagos and Nelson Herrera got off the bus. The former with his hands raised. The autopsy report for Mario Lagos Rodríguez revealed that he received two bullet impacts fired from more than fifty centimeters away: one in the left axillary area—which proves that he had his arms raised at the moment he received the impact—and another in the posterior part of the right thigh.

Mario Lagos was murdered in front of the Vega Monumental in Concepción when about thirty CNI agents forced him off a bus. He died riddled with bullets when he got off. He had his arms raised. It is in light of this evidence, and due to the premeditated and coordinated action, that the families of the murdered MIR members requested the expansion of the prosecution that had been decided by Judge Carlos Aldana; and at the beginning of this year, lawyers Magdalena Garcés and Patricia Parra presented two petitions to expand the prosecution to JORGE CLAUDIO ANDRADE GÓMEZ and AQUILES MAURICIO GONZÁLEZ CORTÉS as perpetrators of the qualified homicide of all the victims; JORGE CAMILO MANDIOLA ARREDONDO as perpetrator of the qualified homicide of Luciano Humberto Aedo Arias, Mario Octavio Lagos Rodríguez, Nelson Adrián Herrera Riveros, and Mario Ernesto Mujica Barros; HUGO JOSÉ HECHENLEITNER HECHENLEITNER and EGON ANTONIO BARRA BARRA as perpetrators of the crime of qualified homicide of Mario Octavio Lagos Rodríguez; RAFAEL DE JESÚS RIVEROS FROST as perpetrator of the crime of qualified homicide of Mario Ernesto Mujica Barros; FRANCISCO JAVIER ORELLANA SEGUEL and JORGE FERNANDO RAMÍREZ ROMERO as perpetrators of the qualified homicide of Rogelio Humberto Tapia De la Puente and Raúl Jaime Barrientos Matamala; and agents CARLOS ALBERTO EGUÍA LÓPEZ, LUIS RENÉ TORRES MÉNDEZ, PEDRO MARÍA ROJAS VÁSQUEZ, ZINAIDA LENA VICENCIO GONZÁLEZ, and AQUILES POBLETE PALOMINOS as perpetrators of the crime of qualified homicide of Juan José Boncompte Andreu. “It is more than proven in the files that more than a hundred agents participated in this massacre,” asserts Javiera, and continues: “Among those prosecuted, there is neither the head of the CNI in Concepción, nor the head of the CNI in Puerto Montt, nor Corvalán's second-in-command. That is why we are asking for justice. There are at least 26 people who are the most evident.” By Alejandra Carmona López

Source: El Mostrador, August 24, 2013