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Allende body to be exhumed, says Chile

Published on 16/04/2011

Government officials in Chile said Friday 15 April that Salvador Allende’s body will be exhumed in May as part of investigations into 726 cases of possible rights abuses after Allende fell from power in 1973. The former president committed suicide, according to the official record, shooting himself in the presidential palace, using a gun provided ...