Chilean government to sue disappeared tricksters
Albuquerque Express Tuesday 30th December, 2008
The Chilean government has threatened to sue people who made claims that their relatives went missing, when they knew the claims were false.
Many people in Chile have reported that family members were taken during during the dictatorship of the late general Augusto Pinochet.
Recently, three people listed as killed or missing during the 1973-1990 military regime were either found alive or were discovered to have died in unrelated circumstances.
The cases have raised questions about the system of verification of dictatorship victims.
Because people who went missing are regarded victims of the state, their relatives are eligible for government payments.
The first name of a false victim surfaced in November, when the main organization representing relatives of dead or missing victims of the dictatorship discovered that one person on their list, a 65 year old man, was well and living in Buenos Aires.
His family knew the man was alive but nevertheless applied for, and received, government benefits.
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