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Three Uruguayan Nationals Extradited to Chile for Alleged Role in Pinochet-Era Murder
Three Uruguayan military officers were extradited to Chile yesterday to face charges in the kidnapping and murder of a Chilean secret police agent, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, Sept. 16, 2004). Retired Col. Tomas Casella, Col. Wellington Sarli and Capt. Eduardo Radaelli are accused of conspiring with their Chilean counterparts in the 1990s to prevent biochemist Eugenio Berrios from testifying at a human rights trial. Chilean military officers reportedly escorted Berrios to Uruguay. He escaped, but local authorities turned him over to Casella and other Uruguayan military personnel in November 1992, court records state. His body was discovered in 1995, and authorities believe he was killed between March and June of 1993, according to AFP. Berrios was believed to have prepared sarin-laced explosives for planned assassinations during the rule of former Chilean President Gen. Augusto Pinochet, AFP reported. His disappearance is linked to “Operation Condor,” a plot by South American dictators beginning in the 1970s to do away with political opponents. This is the first time Uruguay has extradited military officials connected to the operation, AFP reported (Agence France-Presse, April 18).
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