SANTIAGO – Chilean singer-songwriter Victor Jara was beaten and tortured before soldiers of the Pinochet regime fired 44 shots into his body, court sources said Wednesday, citing the results of a fresh autopsy performed in connection with the current investigation of the Sept. 15, 1973, murder.

The report was delivered early Wednesday to the judge overseeing the probe, Juan Fuentes Belmar, the sources said.

Jara was among thousands of sympathizers of ousted Socialist President Salvador Allende rounded up and taken to Santiago’s Chile stadium in the days following Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s Sept. 11, 1973, coup.

So far, only one person has been indicted for the singer’s death: retired Col. Mario Manriquez Bravo, who commanded the makeshift prison camp at the stadium.

The autopsy determined that soldiers pummeled Jara’s hands with the butts of their rifles before shooting him 44 times in the head, chest, arms and legs.

The killing of Jara, a prominent Allende supporter, remains one of the most prominent of the atrocities committed by the 1973-1990 military regime, which is blamed for more than 3,000 deaths and some 25,000 documented instances of torture.

Chile stadium was renamed for Victor Jara in 2003.

“Victor’s murder is a symbol to the world of human rights violations and finding out what happened will be our victory, proof that there cannot be impunity for crimes against humanity,” the singer’s British-born widow, Joan, said last year in an interview with Efe. EFE