Editing Valech Report (section)

== Aftermath ==
The state provided lifelong monetary compensation to the victims as well as health and education benefits. These are detailed in Law 19,992 and include: a monthly payment of about 113,000 to 129,000 thousand [[Chilean peso]]s (in December 2004 prices, subsequently adjusted for inflation), depending on the victim's age; free public healthcare for victims and their parents, spouses or children under twenty-five, or incapacitated children of any age; free education (primary to tertiary) for victims whose studies were interrupted by their imprisonment.<ref name="leyvalech">[http://www.leychile.cl/Navegar?idLey=19992 Ley 19,992], Chile's Library of Congress.</ref> There is also a special bonus of four million Chilean pesos for victim's children who were born in captivity or who were detained with their parents while they were minors.<ref name="leyvalech" />

Critics of the Valech Report said that families were [[Welfare fraud|falsely claiming]] that their relatives went missing during the 1973–1990 military regime. There had been reports since 2008 that four people, listed as killed or missing, were alive or had died in unrelated circumstances.<ref>{{cite web|title=Impunity Watch: South America 2008|url=http://www.impunitywatch.com/impunity_watch_south_amer/2008/12/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627215845/http://www.impunitywatch.com/impunity_watch_south_amer/2008/12/index.html|archive-date=27 June 2009|url-status=live|access-date=16 August 2009}}</ref> These cases have raised questions about the system of verification of victims of dictatorships.<ref>{{cite web|title=Chilean government to sue disappeared tricksters|work=Albuquerque Express|date=30 December 2008|url=http://story.albuquerqueexpress.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/447655/cs/1/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707103844/http://story.albuquerqueexpress.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/447655/cs/1/|archive-date=7 July 2011|url-status=live|access-date=16 August 2009}}</ref> ''The Age'' newspaper has reported that a total of 1,183 people were killed, or reported missing and presumed dead, and that their names appear on a special memorial at the General Cemetery of Santiago.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Age|date=30 December 2008|url=http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/human-rights/false-reports.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101111004020/http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/human-rights/false-reports.htm|archive-date=11 November 2010|url-status=live|access-date=16 August 2009}}</ref> Clive Foss, in ''The Tyrants: 2500 years of Absolute Power and Corruption'', estimates that 1,500 Chileans were killed or disappeared during the Pinochet regime. Nearly 700 civilians disappeared during the period between 1974  and 1977 after being detained by the Chilean military and police.<ref name="nytimes.com">[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/13/world/new-chilean-leader-announces-political-pardons.html "New Chilean Leader Announces Political Pardons"], ''New York Times'', 13 March 1990</ref> In October 1977, ''The New York Times'' reported that [[Amnesty International]] had documented the disappearance of approximately 1,500 Chileans since 1973.<ref>"A Green Light for The Junta?", ''New York Times'', 28 October 1977</ref>

Until May 2012, seventy-six agents had been condemned for human rights violations and sixty-seven were convicted: thirty-six from the [[Chilean Army|Army]], twenty-seven [[Carabineros de Chile|Carabineros]], two from the [[Chilean Air Force|Air Force]], one from the [[Chilean Navy|Navy]], and one of the [[Investigations Police of Chile|PDI]]. Three condemned agents died and six agents received conditional sentences. The Chilean justice system holds 350 open cases of "disappeared" persons, illegal detainees, and torture victims during the dictatorial rule. These cases involve 700 military and civilian personnel.<ref>Article [http://www.latercera.com/noticia/nacional/2012/06/680-465560-9-estudio-revela-que-76-son-los-agentes-de-la-dictadura-condenados-por-violaciones.shtml Estudio revela que 76 son los agentes de la dictadura condenados por violaciones a DDHH] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120610013702/http://latercera.com/noticia/nacional/2012/06/680-465560-9-estudio-revela-que-76-son-los-agentes-de-la-dictadura-condenados-por-violaciones.shtml |date=2012-06-10 }} in the Chilean newspaper [[La Tercera]] on 09 Juli 2012,  retrieved on 22 juli 2012</ref>