SANTIAGO: A group of retired Chilean military officers sued Cuban President Raul Castro on Friday, accusing him of financing a 1985 arms shipment to opponents of General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
The suit filed with the Santiago Court of Appeals seeks Castro's arrest and trial for allegedly arming a guerrilla movement to try to overthrow the Pinochet regime, which seized power in a 1973 coup.
Castro is due to visit Santiago later this month for a January 27 summit of Latin American and European leaders.
Retired colonel Juan Gonzalez, a leader of the group, said the aim was "to do what politicians don't dare to do, which is to arrest one of the world's biggest dictators."
"History shows that the Castro brothers financed the far left to try to get the military led by General Pinochet out of the government," said Gonzalez, who leads an organization of ex-military officers backing the late military ruler.
The group is named the September 11 Corporation, after the date of the military coup that toppled President Salvador Allende and brought Pinochet to power.
The suit references a 50-tonne arms shipment seized by Chilean police in 1985 in the coastal town of Carrizal Bajo after it was smuggled in by sea in northern Chile.
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