Church seeks Pinochet era military pardons http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/07/201072232824647680.html

Catholic church leaders have urged Chile's president to pardon military officers jailed for abuses committed during the bloody military rule of General Augusto Pinochet. The proposal would grant a sweeping pardon to aged and long-serving inmates in the country's jails as an act of clemency to mark Chile's celebrations of 200 years of independence.''Let's not forget they didn't all share equal responsibility in the crimes that were committed," the Chilean Bishops' Conference said in the proposal presented to Sebastian Pinera, the Chilean president, on Wednesday.