page_title: Pisagua case
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Pisagua case / History
caption_attribution_description: Español: Memorial Pisagua
context_page_description: The Pisagua Case is the name given to the legal actions taken surrounding the crimes that occurred in the torture center and prison camp installed in the town of Pisagua, during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
context_section_description: The judicial investigation began prior to the claim of illegal burial presented by the Vicariate of Solidarity, 31 May 1990 in the Pozo Almonte Court.
  On 2 June 1990 the mass grave was found, located in the north-west sector of the Pisagua Cemetery. Twenty bodies were discovered within the grave, well-preserved due to the salt that permeates the sand in the area.
caption: Fosa de Pisagua
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