Chile's army chief has warned that a military report on the fate of dozens of people killed during former dictator Augusto Pinochet's rule could contain errors and called for the information to be checked.
Army Commander-in-Chief Ricardo Izurieta's call came after the remains of a former trade union leader and a peasant were found buried in Chile, contradicting a claim in the report that they had been dumped in the Pacific Ocean.
The military report was compiled by anonymous sources under an amnesty and Izurieta said he feared that separate information provided by human rights groups on the fate of the socalled disappeared might also contain errors.
He said the armed forces believed the information had been given in good faith, but it all needed checking.
The report in question, which was compiled by the military and religious institutions, was released in January. It revealed details of about 200 people who disappeared under Pinochet's iron-fisted rule.
The bodies of many of the disappeared were dumped into lakes, rivers and the ocean. Others were buried in clandestine graves around the country.
More than 3,000 people, most of them suspected leftists, were killed or simply vanished during Pinochet's rule. Around 600 of them have never been accounted for.
Meanwhile, the 85-year-old Pinochet is facing charges of covering up killings and abductions under his regime. A Chilean appeals court watered down original charges that the former strongman planned the abuses against the disappeared.