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Judge Juan Guzman indicted Pinochet on a charge of kidnapping, asking that he be held under house arrest and ordering him to face trial in connection with the "disappearances" of prisoners in the

The training Pinochet and his military received conditioned them not to distinguish civilians from armed rebels, as the nature of the threat was an ideological one - not a military one. The result was an era of mass human rights violations in Chile, where average civilians were abducted, tortured, and murdered.

Garcés filed a similar lawsuit on Chile, and his team started to gather evidence before the Spanish National Court. Dozens of victims of the Chilean military's repression travelled to Spain to give testimonies: "We were waiting for the appropriate moment to ask for an international arrest warrant against Pinochet. It was a complex issue.