PINOCHET FORMER DICTATOR & MASS MURDERER WHO TOOK OVER CHILE IN AN AMERICAN STAGED COUP IN 1973 HAS DIED

FORMER DICTATOR & MASS MURDERER OF CHILE 1973-1989 BELOVED BY USA & HATED BY HIS OWN PEOPLE DIED TODAY ESCAPING JUSTICE - IN THIS IMAGE PICTURES OF THE DISAPPEARED ARE SUPERIMPOSED ONTO PINOCHET- HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF THOUSANDS CHILEANS

"30 years ago, the Chilean military, backed by the CIA, Kissinger, and Nixon violently crushed the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. Thousands of people were killed and disappeared; thousands more were arrested and tortured."
/www.freedomarchives.org/Chile/

For Photos before & after the Coup

Guards at National Stadium, Santiago, Chile
www.flickr.com/photos/marcelo_montecino/



SALVADOR ALLENDE POPULAR PRESIDENT OF CHILE - ELECTED DURING A LEGAL & FAIR DEMOCRATIC ELECTION - THIS CARRIED NO WEIGHT FOR NIXON & KISSINGER WHO DID NOT APPROVE OF HIS POPULAR REFORMS-

as for freedom of the Press the USA saw nothing wrong with destroying Newsgroups in Chile who wrote in fovour of Allende or who criticized Pinochet & US involvement in the 1973 Coup
for example on the website for the newsgroup Puro Chile write:

" On September 11, 1973 torturers and murderers in uniform assailed the building in which the daily Puro Chile had its offices, after it had been under intense attack by heavy machine-gun fire. Once inside the offices, the robbers in uniform destroyed furniture, the archives and the work of the journalists, to then throw all the debris onto one heap and set it alight. In this way, the torturers and murderers in uniform attempted to physically wipe-out the existence of Puro Chile from Chilean soil. They reduced our offices to pieces, but not our dream of social justice and a better future for mankind. "

" Now, almost 30 years later, from the ashes left by the bandits in uniform Puro Chile is reborn like a homage to those who fell, were tortured, to those who disappeared, were killed, to those who were humiliated and offended by the monstrous claw of the murderers in uniform. "


http://www.purochile.org/indexen7.htm
Puro Chile
The memory of the people



SALVADOR ALLENDE PRESIDENT OF CHILE JUST BEFORE BEING MURDERED DURING THE 1973 AMERICAN STAGED COUP


VICTOR JARA POPULAR FOLKSINGER OF CHILE WHO WAS TORTURED & ASSASSINATED ON THE ORDERS OF PINOCHET AT THE STADIUM IN SANTIAGO SEPTEMBER 16, 1973

" Victor Jara is widely recognized as one of the leaders of the New Song Movement in Chile which began in the 1960s and continued through the 70s. Other artists who defined the New Song Movement include folk singer Violeta Parra and the groups Inti-Illimani and Quilapayun.After September 11, 1973, all music by the artists was declared subversive and the discovery of possession of such recordings would lead to certain arrest. The New Song Movement had strongly identified itself with the Popular Unity government of Allende (la Unidad Popular), and the music lent inspiration and cohesiveness to the supporters of the Unidad Popular "--STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
AND ACADEMIC INFORMATION RESOURCES
www-sul.stanford.edu/about_sulair/

And the wounds left by Pinochet's brutal regime have still not healed -


santiago demo Anti-Pinochet activists in Chile have protested against his possible release-- Saturday, 29 January, 2000, 01:03 GMT
Ex-prisoners accuse Pinochet of torture
By James Reynolds in Santiago

Some 643 former political prisoners in Chile have filed a lawsuit against General Augusto Pinochet, accusing the former military leader of torture.
This is the 59th lawsuit submitted in Chile against General Pinochet.
The general is currently under house arrest in London. Earlier this month, the British Home Secretary, Jack Straw, said that he was minded to return him to Chile on health grounds.
'Degrading crimes'
The text of the lawsuit accuses the former military leader of responsibility for cruel, inhuman and degrading crimes, which it argues cannot be covered by any amnesty laws.

And not surprising is the The Bush Regime supports a number of ruthless brutal dictatorships around the world for example UZBEKISTAN:


http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news498.htm
LET THEM EAT LEAD

lock 'em all up... and protect freedom

"There are over 6,000 political and religious prisoners in UZBEKISTAN. Every year, some of them are tortured to death. Sometimes the policemen or intelligence agents simply break their fingers, their ribs and then their skulls with hammers, or stab them with screwdrivers, or rip off bits of skin and flesh with pliers, or drive needles under their fingernails, or leave them standing for a fortnight up to their knees in freezing water. Sometimes they are a little more inventive. The body of one prisoner was delivered to his relatives last year, with a curious red tidemark around the middle of his torso. He had been boiled to death." - George Monbiot, activist and writer

Given that George Bush has been busy bringing "democracy" to the Middle East and former Soviet Union states, you'd think the White House would be condemning the dictatorial Uzbek government, who this week have been busy murdering hundreds of their own people. A spokesman simply murmured that the regime should "exercise caution and restraint ", nothing more. It's only a week since Bush visited Georgia, a country which he referred to as "a beacon of liberty for this region and the world". Congratulating the people for overthrowing ex-Soviet apparatchik Edvard Shevardnadze in the "Rose Revolution", Bush must have had a sense of deja vu. Only last Christmas the White House lavished similar praise on the Ukrainians "Orange Revolution" , providing material, financial and political support. When crowds demonstrated in Lebanon, Kyrgizstan, Ukraine and Georgia, the Americans welcomed it as "people power" and pledged to support "freedom-loving peoples" of the world in their struggles to overthrow "brutal dictatorships". So why go so quiet when the Uzbek people rise up against their own Soviet-era dictator? '

And Human Rights violations continue up to the present in Chile:


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VIGIL IN FRONT OF LA MONEDA PALACE IN SANTIAGO,CHILE ---
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SOCIETY FOR THREATENED PEOPLE: FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WORLDWIDE
Anti-terror laws against Mapuche leaders are in the tradition of the Pinochet dictatorship
Mapuche in Chile call for release of the political prisoners

Yvonne Bangert
November 2005

Mapuche civil rights workers are criminalized

The Mapuche make up with some 1.3 million members nearly ten percent of the 15.8 million inhabitants of Chile. Following the first step of Christopher Columbus on American soil, which presaged doom for the indigenous peoples, the Mapuche on the territory of the present Chile fought for a long time against the Spaniards for their land. They had also successfully resisted the empire of the Incas. They were not conquered until Chile became independent in 1818. Today the Mapuche are a peaceable, but extremely impoverished and under-privileged minority. According to the Chilean Indian Law the Mapuche are really entitled to minority rights and the right to the return of the lands stolen during the military dictatorship of Pinochet (1973-1989). However these laws have not been implemented. So the Mapuche civil rights movements came into being, and their leaders are being criminalized as terrorists by the Chilean courts as an answer to their non-violent demands for land.

The laws in use are: the "Law for Inner Security " (Law No.12.927) and the Anti-terror Law, both taken over from the time of the dictatorship. The Anti-terror Law was indeed extended in the 1990s after the dictatorship: since then it also takes effect in the case of damage to property and of a possible link with an organisation which may be seen as of a terrorist nature. The criminal prosecution of the Mapuche is therefore regularly based on charges which are connected with the accusation of terrorism: belonging to an illegal association (among these being Mapuche associations which are legally working for more rights and also Mapuche communities which recognize their local persons of authority, the Lonkos), disturbing public order in the course of non-violent demonstrations, insulting officials, non-violent occupation of land, violence against objects or arson.

Mapuche International Link
http://www.mapuche-nation.org/
our site aims to highlight the current situation of the Mapuche people and to provide information about their culture and history as well as their continuing struggle and aspirations for the future.

Tomas Hirsch, leader of the Left
"Chile no longer has a rule of law "
By Jorge ZIGA Tuesday 9th May 2006, Santiago

Tomas Hirsch, the ex-presidential candidate of the extra-parliamentary left, visited the Moneda Palace to show his support of the Mapuche hunger strike taking place in southern Chile . "They have been illegally convicted using faceless witnesses under the Antiterrorist Law " the same law used by Pinochet during his dictatorship " said Hirsh.
After presenting a letter to the President of the Republic, Tomas Hirsch stressed that "a democratic country does not have "rule of law " while it has political prisoners detained and accused under an anti-terrorist law created during the dictatorship and using "anonymous witnesses". The ex-presidential candidate of the left highlighted that the insistence of the Supreme Court in repeating the trials three times in order to secure a guilty verdict, " shows that there is real political persecution against the Mapuche people " .

ANYWAY SEE YOU LATER,
GORD.