Presidential Human Rights advisor: "It is unlikely that there are other cases of falsely disappeared persons"

SANTIAGO.- The presidential advisor on Human Rights, María Luisa Sepúveda, stated today that it is unlikely that there would be other cases of false reports of disappeared prisoners. The questions came following the discovery that Germán Cofré Martínez, who had supposedly died in 1973 at the hands of government officials, had actually been living in Mendoza, Argentina, for 35 years.

"It is quite unlikely that there will be other cases like this, I would say no, but I cannot sign a document, and there are margins of error in all processes, but I would say that there is no evidence in other cases that has led us to believe that there may be errors in the determination", Sepúlveda told Radio ADN.

With regards to Cofré, Sepúlveda indicated that officials will now have to determine the level of responsibility the man be have in the deception, since "victims" are classified by the amount of evidence there is to support such a fact and "the case that was presented at that time, with the evidence that was available, indicated that Cofré was a victim".