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The "National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation", an eight member committee that wrote the Rettig Report, was set up in 1990 shortly after Patricio Alwyn, Chile's first democratically elected president since Salvador Allende in 1970 took office. In addition to the eight members, the committee was chaired by Raúl Rettig, a former Chilean senator and ambassador to Brazil under Allende. In order to show impartiality, the commission contained four members each from camps of supporters of the Pinochet regime, and opponents of it (citation 1).

The commission was given extensive resources to ensure thoroughness, and in part because of this, the Rettig Report was finalized in February 1991 (citation 2). One criticism of the report is that it only focused on politically motivated murders and disappearances that occurred while Pinochet was president, and did not include other human rights violations. This issue was addressed in a second report commissioned in 2003 known as the Valeech Commission (citation 3).

In a speech announcing the report's findings, President Alwyn apologized on behalf of the Chilean government for the murders and disappearances detailed in the report, and asked the military to do the same. The Chilean military, still headed by Pinochet refused to apologize. (Include paragraph on impact of findings, mention reopening of previously closed cases)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40176564?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents or https://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1226&context=umialr

https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/Chile917.pdf

https://www.usip.org/publications/1990/05/truth-commission-chile-90

https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/Chile917.pdf https://journals.ohiolink.edu/pg_200?::NO:200:P200_ARTICLEID:322284053