Eulogy costs Pinochet kin his army job
From Times Wire Reports
The grandson of Gen. Augusto Pinochet was discharged from the army after causing an uproar with his eulogy denouncing judges who had tried the late Chilean dictator.
At the funeral Tuesday, Capt. Augusto Pinochet Molina, 34, defended his grandfather’s bloody 1973 coup and said judges who later sought to prosecute the ex-dictator were seeking “notoriety, not justice.”
The comment brought applause from mourners but censure from President Michelle Bachelet, who was once imprisoned under the dictatorship.
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