Documentation for September 11 Command
Sept. 13, 1986
United Press International
A paramilitary death squad claimed responsibility Saturday for the murder of four leftists and vowed to execute a fifth to avenge an assassination attempt on President Augusto Pinochet.
''We have executed four communists and a fifth will die soon,'' said a tape recording from the ''September 11 Commandos'' played to foreign news agencies.
Jan. 1, 1988
“Chile: Human Rights and the Plebiscite”, A. Rickard, C. Brown, A. Stepan
The September 11 Command is a paramilitary group, which took credit, in September 1986, for killing four oppositionists in retaliation for the FNPR’s having killed five presidential bodyguards during the assassination attempt on Pinochet. September 11 is, of course, the date of the 1973 coup that brought Pinochet to power.
Sept. 5, 1990
The Guardian
President Salvador Allende of Chile was reburied yesterday with a dignity denied him after he died nearly 17 years ago as General Augusto Pinochet's forces strafed his presidential palace. […] Earlier, four bombs exploded in the early hours of the morning, damaging monuments, a shopping centre and a car showroom. Police said they believed the bombs were placed by an ultra-right group called the September 11 Commandos.
June 15, 1991
Inter Press Service
The police officer, also known as Americo Correa, continues to serve in the police force and was decorated several months ago "for his professional excellence," according to "La Nacion." […] At dawn on September 8 and 9, during a state of siege, well-known journalist Jose Carrasco and three others were reportedly dragged from their homes and machine-gunned to death. […] Responsibility for the assassinations was later claimed by the "September 11 Commando Group." The murders were committed two days after a failed assassination attempt against Pinochet, carried out by the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front (FPMR). [in 1986]. The death squad under Correa's command, tried to kidnap human rights attorney Luis Toro, currently working in the interior ministry, but Toro's neighbors thwarted the attempt when they intervened.
Sept. 6, 1996
Inter Press Service
Meanwhile, those who participated in the "September 11 Commando" that killed journalist Jose Carrasco and three other left-wing militants that same night in reprisal for the attack have gone unpunished. […] Another case, against an agent of the CNI, Jorge Vargas Bories, in which it was becoming clear that the commando was a front for that repressive agency (which was dissolved in February 1990) was annulled in 1991. The presiding judge issued a ban on reporting on the case, which remains in effect in spite of repeated protests by the Association of Journalists. […] Carrasco and Professor Gaston Vidaurrazaga, members of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left, and two militants of the Communist Party, Abraham Muskatblit and Felipe Rivera, were taken from their homes on the night of Sept. 7, 1986 and killed.
