Chile’s late dictator Augusto Pinochet took power in a violent coup d’état in 1973.   For some, it hard to believe that the men who were conscripted to carry out his often bloody orders are now campaigning for compensation, 40 years on.

They were forced they say, to commit heinous acts from which some have never managed to recover.  They too, were victims of Chile’s coup.   In this CBC documentary which aired in January 2014, we hear from ex-conscripts and Chilean families who lost loved ones under the brutal dictatorship, and see how the country is still struggling to heal from Pinochet’s legacy.