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Chile rejects pardons proposed by Catholic Church (AP)

A police officer looks on as people hold portraits of family members who were dissidents killed during the dictatorship of former Gen. Augusto Pinochet outside La Moneda government palace in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday July 21, 2010. The Roman Catholic Church handed Chile's President Sebastian Pinera a petition for massive pardons that include military officials who committed crimes against humanity during Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship (1973-90). (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - Chile’s conservative president rejected a proposal by the Roman Catholic Church for sweeping pardons of elderly and sick prisoners that would have freed military officers convicted of human rights violations during the Pinochet dictatorship.


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