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Aylwin, as soon as he became president, pardoned 79 convicted terrorists and in total pardoned 928<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latercera.com/noticia/indultos-presidenciales-llegan-a-su-menor-nivel-desde-el-retorno-de-la-democracia/|title=Indultos presidenciales llegan a su menor nivel desde el retorno de la democracia|publisher=La Tercera|date=Febrary 8, 2014|language=es}}</ref> (almost all of the one who comited bloody crimes during the Military Government<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogdehermogenes.blogspot.com/2013/09/la-naturaleza-del-chileno.html|title=La Naturaleza del Chileno|publisher=[[Hermógenes Pérez de Arce]]'s blog|date=Septemebr 23, 2013|language=es}}</ref>) and persecuted, through ''ad hoc'' commissions, the military men he himself had summoned to defeat them.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogdehermogenes.blogspot.com/2011/06/pais-primitivo-con-plata.html|title=País Primitivo con Plata|publisher=[[Hermógenes Pérez de Arce]]'s blog|date=June 9, 2011|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://elpais.com/diario/1990/03/13/internacional/637282816_850215.html|title=Aylwin estrena la presidencia de Chile con el indulto a los presos políticos|date=March 12, 1990|language=es|publisher=El País}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://elpais.com/diario/1994/03/11/internacional/763340406_850215.html|title=Aylwin deja el poder con un indulto a tres presos que atentaron contra Pinochet|date=March 10, 1994|language=es|publisher=El País}}</ref> Aylwin reformed the Constitution in 1991 to make this possible, giving the President power to pardon imprisoned people. The constitutional text in force around 1990 established the inadmissibility of amnesty, pardon and provisional freedom for those prosecuted for terrorist crimes (art. 9, third paragraph of DL 3.464). This constituted a legal obstacle to the fulfillment of President Aylwin's government program, which aspired to promote "political reconciliation" in the country, and in this framework, "that no political prisoners would remain in jail" during his term of office.<ref>Loveman and Lira, 2002:38</ref> In order to make this norm more flexible and "allow the President of the Republic to grant the benefit of pardon for crimes of this kind [terrorist] committed prior to March 11, 1990", on December 13, 1990, the President presented the Constitutional Reform Bill on Pardon, Amnesty and Provisional Freedom.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://obtienearchivo.bcn.cl/obtienearchivo?id=repositorio/10221/22038/1/FINAL%20-%20Reforma%20constitucional%20para%20el%20indulto%20presidencial.pdf|title=La reforma constitucional de 1991 que habilitó el indulto presidencial|language=es|publisher=Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile|date=September 21, 2015}}</ref>

Aylwin, as soon as he became president, pardoned 79 convicted terrorists and in total pardoned 928<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latercera.com/noticia/indultos-presidenciales-llegan-a-su-menor-nivel-desde-el-retorno-de-la-democracia/|title=Indultos presidenciales llegan a su menor nivel desde el retorno de la democracia|publisher=La Tercera|date=Febrary 8, 2014|language=es}}</ref> (almost all of the one who comited bloody crimes during the Military Government<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogdehermogenes.blogspot.com/2013/09/la-naturaleza-del-chileno.html|title=La Naturaleza del Chileno|publisher=[[Hermógenes Pérez de Arce]]'s blog|date=Septemebr 23, 2013|language=es}}</ref>) and persecuted, through ''ad hoc'' commissions, the military men he himself had summoned to defeat them.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogdehermogenes.blogspot.com/2011/06/pais-primitivo-con-plata.html|title=País Primitivo con Plata|publisher=[[Hermógenes Pérez de Arce]]'s blog|date=June 9, 2011|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://elpais.com/diario/1990/03/13/internacional/637282816_850215.html|title=Aylwin estrena la presidencia de Chile con el indulto a los presos políticos|date=March 12, 1990|language=es|publisher=El País}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://elpais.com/diario/1994/03/11/internacional/763340406_850215.html|title=Aylwin deja el poder con un indulto a tres presos que atentaron contra Pinochet|date=March 10, 1994|language=es|publisher=El País}}</ref> Aylwin reformed the Constitution in 1991 to make this possible, giving the President power to pardon imprisoned people. The constitutional text in force around 1990 established the inadmissibility of amnesty, pardon and provisional freedom for those prosecuted for terrorist crimes (art. 9, third paragraph of DL 3.464). This constituted a legal obstacle to the fulfillment of President Aylwin's government program, which aspired to promote "political reconciliation" in the country, and in this framework, "that no political prisoners would remain in jail" during his term of office.<ref>Loveman and Lira, 2002:38</ref> In order to make this norm more flexible and "allow the President of the Republic to grant the benefit of pardon for crimes of this kind [terrorist] committed prior to March 11, 1990", on December 13, 1990, the President presented the Constitutional Reform Bill on Pardon, Amnesty and Provisional Freedom.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://obtienearchivo.bcn.cl/obtienearchivo?id=repositorio/10221/22038/1/FINAL%20-%20Reforma%20constitucional%20para%20el%20indulto%20presidencial.pdf|title=La reforma constitucional de 1991 que habilitó el indulto presidencial|language=es|publisher=Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile|date=September 21, 2015}}</ref>

In 1991 conservative Senator [[Jaime Guzmán]] was killed by the FPMR member, Galvarino Apablaza, none of the authors are in prison.

In 1991 conservative Senator [[Jaime Guzmán]] was killed by the FPMR member, Ricardo Palma Salamanca, and also Galvarino Apablaza was involved, none of the authors are in prison.

===Rettig Report===

===Rettig Report===