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Carmelo Soria (Madrid, 5 November 1921 – Santiago de Chile, 16 July 1976) was a Spanish-Chilean United Nations diplomat. A member of the CEPAL (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) in the 1970s, he was assassinated by Chile's DINA agents as a part of Operation Condor. Augusto Pinochet had personally been indicted in this case.〔(Más de 300 querellas abiertas ), ''El Periodico'' 〕〔(European Parliament resolution ) concerning Pinochet's arrest 〕 == Life == Carmelo Soria was the nephew of the Spanish urban planner Arturo Soria y Mata.〔(El 'caso Soria' ), ''El País'' 〕 He had three children with his wife Laura González Vera. After the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), Carmelo Soria, who was a member of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE),〔Albert Vallejo, (Chile indemniza a la familia de Soria 26 años después de su asesinato ), ''El Mundo'', 24 December 2002 〕 exiled himself to Chile, where he obtained double citizenship.〔 He became a UN civil servant in the 1960s. Between 1971 and 1973, during Salvador Allende's rule, Soria temporarily abandoned his functions to become an advisor to the Popular Unity government. In September 1973, after Augusto Pinochet's coup, he re-joined the UN. He then used his diplomatic immunity status to protect opponents of Pinochet by granting them political asylum in various embassies, thus making him a target for the DINA secret police.〔 On 14 July 1976, he was abducted and his corpse found two days later in a car sunk in the Canal del Carmen in the Pirámide sector of Santiago de Chile. Soria was first detained in the Vía Naranja house in the sector of Lo Curro, shared by DINA agent Michael Townley and where Eugenio Berrios also worked.〔 There, he was tortured and, since he didn't speak, subjected to sarin gas (which had been re-invented by Berrios).〔 Soria was then detained and tortured again in the Villa Grimaldi.〔〔 On 18 July 1976, notices of Carmelo Soria's death began to be announced on European radio stations, while it was censored in Chile.〔(Account of Soria's death ) by his widow, May 1977, Symposium on "''desaparecidos en el Cono Sur de América Latina''" 〕 On 4 August 1976, another member of Soria's family, Dr. Carlos Godoy Lagarrigue, the son of the ex-rector of the University of Chile and former Minister of Education Pedro Godoy, also "disappeared".〔 On 15 December 1976, ''The Washington Post'' published an article confirming that Soria's death had been caused by torture at the hands of the Chilean authorities, and not as a car-crash as pretended by the latter.〔 Despite requests from UN secretary-general Kurt Waldheim made in 1976, the Chilean justice apparatus refused to open new investigations on the case.〔 The ''Washington Posts informations were confirmed in 1992 by the testimony of DINA agent Michael Townley.〔 Soria's assassination at the hands of the DINA was confirmed by the Rettig Report at the beginning of the Chilean transition to democracy.〔( Rechazan acuerdo entre Chile y la ONU que indemniza a la familia de Carmelo Soria ), Senate of Chile, 9 November 2005 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carmelo Soria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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