ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the various stages of tasks performed by the Chilean Forensic Anthropology Team, as well as their contribution to justice and reparation for the victims’ relatives by finding and identifying the missing detainees’ remains. The work methodology includes the use of testimonies of victims’ relatives, of members of the forensic anthropology teams, of representatives of human rights organisations, and of judges who worked in the cases. Forensic medicine would have to be adapted to the new and vast challenges and consider that the slightest detail could be crucial. The chapter focuses on characteristics and nature of the military regime and its law enforcement agencies, the response and reaction of both human rights organisations and victims’ relatives, and a comparison of the commissions in 1990 and 2003 when measures were developed for clarifying crimes and generating reparation policies. Once the return to democracy was initiated, conditions were given to make progress in the clarification of the facts.
