Rettig Report

The report found that over 2,000 people had been killed for political reasons, and dozens of military personnel have been convicted of human rights abuses.

The commission was given large amounts of resources and access to official documents to ensure thoroughness, and the report was finalized in February 1991.

[2] One criticism of the report is that it only focused on politically motivated murders and disappearances that occurred while Pinochet was dictator, and did not include other human rights violations.

[3] The commission found that the majority of the human rights violations were conducted in a sophisticated and systematic fashion in the years directly after Pinochet took power.

[5] While some perpetrators have been convicted, prosecution has been difficult due to an amnesty law passed by the military regime in 1978 giving full legal protection to any individual implicated in human rights violations between 1973 and 1978.

The Chilean military, still headed at the time by Pinochet, refused to apologize and much of the armed forces community openly questioned the validity of the report.