Paula said she shut down when she discovered a member of the regime that violently tortured her now lived suburbs away in Sydney.
“My son was shocked. He knows my story, he knows about the horrors of Chile, but being next to somebody who was saying what he did was distressing,” she told AAP.Bizarre twist after Mexican drug cartel kidnaps and kills US tourists
“Do I give this guy’s name to the authorities or report him somewhere. Do I follow it up? But it’s almost like I didn’t want to know.”Sanchez still carries “a lot of anger and hatred”, noting there are other Chileans in Australia who have admitted to committing atrocities but have not been extradited.Rivas was an assistant to Manuel Contreras, the head of the secret police during Pinochet’s dictatorship.
The Attorney-General’s Department said the extradition process for Rivas was in its final stage, requiring the government to decide whether to surrender her to Chile. The independent standalone unit could initially open investigations through the Australian Federal Police as an immediate and interim measure, the report recommended.
It maintained the command is “staffed by investigators who have experience in dealing with war crimes matters, and a range of other complex and sensitive investigations”.Renowned Australian human rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson said the report was an important call for the nation “to deny a hiding place to perpetrators of crimes against humanity ... to flush them out and bring them to justice.
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