Operation Albania
| Operation Albania | |
|---|---|
| Location | Santiago, Chile |
| Date | June 15-16, 1987 |
| Target | Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front members |
| Deaths | 12 |
| Perpetrator | National Information Center |
Operation Albania (Spanish: Operación Albania), also known as the "Corpus Christi massacre" (Spanish: Matanza de Corpus Christi), was the targeted killing of members of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (FPMR) guerrilla group carried out by the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Santiago, Chile, on June 15 and 16, 1987.
In this operation, 12 FPMR members were killed by agents of the National Information Center (CNI) secret police with the objective of "neutralizing" the organization, which had previously attempted a failed ambush against the dictator's convoy, resulting in the death of five bodyguards. These events were presented by the authorities as a "confrontation."
General Hugo Salas Wenzel, the former director of the CNI, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2005 as a co-author of five counts of simple homicide and seven counts of aggravated homicide, a verdict upheld by the Supreme Court in 2007.