SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile will seek to overturn its controversial Amnesty Decree Law, which protects military personnel who committed human rights violations during the dictatorship in the 1970s from being prosecuted, the government said Thursday evening.
The announcement was made on the 41st anniversary of the Sept. 11 coup, an event which ushered in Augusto Pinochet's repressive dictatorship and still deeply divides Chilean society.
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