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Carrie Kahn

Chile will search for 1,000+ victims of forced disappearance by Pinochet dictatorship

A view of the images portraying victims of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship projected onto the La Moneda Presidential Palace to mark the commemoration of the International Day of the Disappeared in Santiago, Chile, on Wednesday. (Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The government of Chile will launch a national search for over 1,000 people who went missing decades ago during Gen. Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship.

Chile's leftist president, Gabriel Boric, said the state must be responsible for finding the truth about forced disappearances and killings by the dictatorship.

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