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As mystery shrouds the manner of death of former Chilean president Salvador Allende, the country Monday exhumed his remains. It is hoped an examination will finally determine whether he committed suicide or was assassinated during a 1973 coup. Officials will conduct a forensic analysis of Allende's remains to try and resolve a decades-old controversy over his death in his presidential palace on September 11, 1973 in the midst of the coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power. The official version of events was that Allende killed himself with an assault rifle as the presidential palace came under attack from the air and ground. However, neither the weapon nor bullets were recovered following his death, and Pinochet's military regime prevented Allende's family from viewing the corpse. There was no criminal investigation into his death. A Chilean prosecutor announced the inquiry in January, as part of an investigation into the deaths of 725 unprobed human rights complaints against Pinochet's 1973-90 military dictatorship. AFP |
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