Chile's supreme court has jailed five retired senior military officers over the killing of dozens of government opponents under military rule.
The officers were all members of a military committee known as the Caravan of Death, which criss-crossed the country killing suspected leftists.
Their crimes date back to shortly after the late Gen Augusto Pinochet took power in a military coup in 1973.
The head of the committee, Gen Sergio Arellano Stark, is now 88.
He was jailed for six years for ordering the murder of four men at a military prison in Linares, southern Chile.
One of the other officers was also sentenced to six years, and the other three received four-year terms.
~ BBC News ~
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