Pinochet on human rights charges

Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet was indicted today 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.

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 is convinced Pinochet’s health does not make him unfit to stand trial, as ruled before by Chilean courts.