Hundreds of Chilean families are still living with the consequences of Augusto Pinochet’s coup d’etat on 11 September 1973, and the military dictatorship that followed. More than 3,000 people were killed or ‘disappeared’, and 40 years on from the coup, many are still wondering what happened to their loved ones. Chile’s Medical Legal Service is trying to find out. But Pinochet’s forces not only threw bodies in the Pacific Ocean, they destroyed skeletal remains using explosives and bulldozers, making today’s search difficult. RFI went to the laboratories of the Medical Legal Service in Santiago to speak with Marisol Intriago the head of its identification Unit.
