Pinochet indicted over kidnapping and murder of dissidents

FORMER Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet was indicted yesterday for the kidnapping of nine dissidents and the killing of one during his 17-year regime.

Judge Juan Guzman said he had also put the 89-year old former ruler under house arrest.

Judge Guzman said he made the decision to try Pinochet - who ruled between 1973 to 1990 - after carefully reviewing an interview Pinochet granted to a Spanish-language television station in Miami. He said he was convinced Pinochet’s health did not make him unfit to stand trial, as ruled before by Chilean courts.