Editing Death squad (section)

==== Chile ====
{{Further|Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional|Chile under Pinochet|Operation Condor|Caravan of Death}}

One of the most notorious murder gangs operated by the [[Chilean Army]] was the '''Caravan of Death''', whose members travelled by helicopter throughout Chile between 30 September and 22 October 1973. During this foray, members of the squad ordered or personally carried out the execution of at least 75 individuals held in Army custody in these garrisons.<ref name=BBC07>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6973614.stm Chile priest charged over deaths] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201006171558/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6973614.stm |date=6 October 2020 }}, [[BBC]], 1 September 2007</ref>  According to the NGO ''Memoria y Justicia'', the squad killed 26 in the South and 71 in the North, making a total of 97 victims.<ref name=Justicia>[http://www.memoriayjusticia.cl/english/en_focus-caravan.html Caravan of Death] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050829012641/http://www.memoriayjusticia.cl/english/en_focus-caravan.html |date=29 August 2005 }}, ''Memoria y Justicia''</ref> [[Augusto Pinochet's arrest and trial|Augusto Pinochet was indicted]] in December 2002 in this case, but he died four years later without having been convicted. The trial, however, is on-going {{as of|2007|September|lc=y}}, other militaries and a former military chaplain having been indicted in this case.
On 28 November 2006, Víctor Montiglio, charged of this case, ordered Pinochet's house arrest<ref>[http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/177449/0/pinochet/procesado/homicidios/ Procesan a Pinochet y ordenan su arresto por los secuestros y homicidios de la "Caravana de la Muerte"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905163627/https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/177449/0/pinochet/procesado/homicidios/ |date=5 September 2019 }}, ''[[20minutos]]'', 28 November 2006.</ref> According to the Chilean Government's own Truth and Reconciliation (Rettig) report, 2,279 people were killed in the operations of Pinochet's regime.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/resources/collections/truth_commissions/Chile90-Report/Chile90-Report.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130929123423/http://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/resources/collections/truth_commissions/Chile90-Report/Chile90-Report.pdf |archive-date=2013-09-29 |url-status=dead|title=Report of the Chilean National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation|work=[[United States Institute of Peace]]}}</ref> In June 1999, judge [[Juan Guzmán Tapia]] ordered the arrest of five retired generals.