Identification of Human Remains (N.N.) at Chihuío (Panguipulli), Chile, July 2011

On 17 July 2011 the human remains of five people killed by the military at Chihuío in the area of Panguipulli in southern Chile were handed over by Patricia Benhe, regional director of the Servicio Médico Legal (SML) to their relatives in Valdivia. Their identification had been announced on the first of July 2011 by the director of the SML, Patricio Bustos. The fragments of bones corresponded to the human remains of Carlos Maximiliano Acuña Inostroza (46), Luis Arnaldo Ferrada Sandoval (42), Daniel Méndez Méndez (42), Ricardo Segundo Ruiz Rodríguez (24), and Manuel Jesús Sepúlveda Rebolledo (28). They had been killed on 9 October 1973 together with other 12 and they were all workers of the farm and forestry company at Panguipulli; they were organized in a trade union with the name Sindicato Campesino La Esperanza del Obrero of the Complejo Agrícola y Forestal Panguipulli.