Many thousands of individuals were fired arbitrarily for their political beliefs from public and private employment. Labor unions were barred from striking and restricted in their normal activities. The study mission also noted that the Congress had been closed. the Constitution abridged. political parties abolished or suspended. and the number of Chilean refugees in neighboring countries was rising. In May. the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States sent a telegram to the junta in which it stated: During this session. the study of the present situation of human rights in Chile has taken a great part of our time. On the one hand. we have examined those individual cases. clearly determinable. in which the violation of certain fundamental rights of one or several specified persons has been denounced.
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