Quemados case
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Quemados case (Spanish: Caso Quemados) is the name given to the attack against two protesters by an army patrol on July 2, 1986, in Santiago, Chile during manifestations against the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
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Quemados case | |
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Location | Santiago, Chile |
Date | 19 July 1986 |
Attack type | Attack with fire |
Weapons | Tires and gasoline |
Deaths | Rodrigo Rojas de Negri |
Injured | Carmen Gloria Quintana |
Perpetrator | Pedro Fernández Dittus |
A group of soldiers led by Pedro Fernández Dittus, that was patrolling the streets during the Days of National Protest (Jornadas de Protesta Nacional) stopped, hit and after wetting them with a flammable liquid, lit on fire two young people: Carmen Gloria Quintana and the photographer Rodrigo Rojas de Negri. After the attack, the victims were transferred to a remote site in the Quilicura commune on the outskirts of the city. Rojas died of his burns while Carmen survived, but with heavy burns. Due to the cruelty of the crime and the absurd judicial process associated with it the event received widespread attention and provoked protests in Chile and on an international level.