Freedom wrote:Now i've been researching the military coup in Chile, as this is often used by Left Wing parrots to attack America etc. Know before i researched Pinochet i knew he had killed and used extradjusical methods to round up people, so i never thought i'd end up actually supporting Pinochet, at least partially, for what he done for Chile. Also i thought it'd be a controversial matter to kick start the South America forum.
Note: Heavy on Anti Communism 
GENERAL PINOCHET
HERO OF THE CHILEAN PEOPLE
No one alive today is more loathed by the Communists and their fellow travelers and camp followers than Chilean General and former President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. The reasons are two fold. Pinochet defeated the hated Communist terrorist militias, the internationally armed financed, and staffed "revolutionaries" on the battlefield and by doing so, ended their attempt to communize Chile in the name of "the people". Pinochet then "transformed" Chile into a peaceful democracy with one of the most prosperous economies in the region. With an extraordinary record of achievement in social and economic reform, the establishment of democratic institutions, and a free election, Pinochet retired in 1990 leaving a grateful Chilean people free of the terror of International Socialism, probably forever.
The pro Communist media is filled with lackeys willing to lie and prostitute their souls either for career advancement or because they are true believers in the Communist faith. That they have been effective with their "atrocity propaganda" against Pinochet is testament to the enduring influence of the Communist idea amongst the world's power elite. They have, so far, pulled off the Big Lie with regard to Pinochet except with Chilean people. The Communist, of course, approaches atrocity dialectically rather than fundamentally. They have no problem with atrocities when governments such as those of Castro, Stalin, Mao, Paul Pot et al commit them, as these "struggles", they inform us, are for the "common good" as they liquidate tens of millions.
An excellent example of this is Willy Meyer, parliamentary spokesman for Izquerida Unida, the renamed Communist Party of Spain. Meyer, commenting on the arrest of Pinochet in Britain, stated that "We do not consider that Fidel Castro is a dictator. We respect the Marxist-Leninist legality by whose definition political persecution, torture, and disappearances cannot exist in Cuba. We are dividing the world between good guys and bad guys There is a vacuum in the international enforcement of human rights and we realize that whoever seizes the initiative to punish violators wins the high ground". An excellent source for further information is an article by William Jasper, New American Vol. 15 No 19 PP 23-34.
Obviously, the left has no moral or practical right to discuss atrocity since they recognize it only dialectically and not actually. Their insufferable caterwauling concerning "human rights" is the equivalent of Hitler, their National Socialist comrade, complaining about anti-Semitism.
Pinochet was at war with a force that would stop at nothing to achieve victory, which would have amounted to complete subjugation under a Communist jack-boot. This truly was, to paraphrase Meyer, a battle between good guys and bad guys. The Pinochet coup was a defensive action and a direct response to formal requests by the Judiciary, the Legislature, and prominent citizens for military intervention as the situation under Salvador Allende were rapidly deteriorating. By 1980, the Chilean people voted 68% to approve a new constitution presented by the Pinochet government. This was the first step on the heroic road to the Republican democracy Chile is today.
Allende will be covered in coming weeks, however, it must be pointed out that documents and arms captured after Allende was overthrown, Sept. 11, 1973 proved that he was planning a coup of his own scheduled for Sept. 19, and to liquidate his opposition Castro style. Pinochet, who had served Allende as Army Chief of Staff during his three years in power, acted strictly out of a sense of duty and honor, and at great personal risk given Allende's extensive Gestapo, to save his nation from catastrophe. Pinochet was the quintessential career military man and had no ambition to involve himself in civilian affairs. Due to a traditional Latin American code of honor, he felt he had no choice.
On Sept 8, days after the coup, at a ceremony at the Church of National Gratitude, three former Chilean presidents endorsed the Pinochet government. Socialist Gabriel Gonzalez Videla stated "I have no words to thank the armed forces for having freed us from the clutches of Marxism. They have saved us because the totalitarian apparatus that was prepared to destroy us has been itself destroyed" Eduardo Frei, himself a Marxist, stated "The military has saved Chile from civil war being prepared by the Marxists. And that is what the world does not know, refuses to know".
Pinochet, once in power, acted with amazing restraint toward those who were plotting a Communist takeover. Allende declined his offer of safe passage and instead chose suicide. He deported thousands of Communist foreigners who were planning firing squads if they achieved power, and released Chilean citizens involved in treasonous activities including the dangerous KGB and Cuban agent, as well as darling of the American left establishment, Orlando Letelier.
Under the guidance of University of Chicago economists, the Pinochet government cleared out economic regulations, reduced tariffs from 100% to 10% and returned businesses and property, "expropriated" by Allende, to the rightful owners. Foreign investment poured in as confidence and stability returned. Taxes and inflation were reduced, Social Security was privatized, and government bureaucrats were able to find jobs in a thriving private sector. Our American government could learn some valuable lessons from Chile.
A relentless war was waged against Pinochet and the Chilean people during the years, 1973-1990. Bill Jasper points out that in 1984 alone, there were 735 terrorist bombings with responsibility claimed by the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front (MRPF) the Communist cadre supported by Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, East Germany, and the Soviet Union. On Sept. 7, 1986, Pinochet and his 10-year-old grandson narrowly escaped an ambush by Communists armed with automatic rifles, rocket launchers, bazookas, and grenades. Many terrorists and their supporters were killed in this war of attrition both by Pinochet's forces and by civilians seeking vengeance and. given the situation, many of their bodies went unidentified. Jasper states that "we have seen no evidence to sustain the charges that Pinochet ordered, knew of, or approved of, any plan for the use of murder or torture against his political opponents".
In 1988, Pinochet called for elections and a return to civilian rule. In an unprecedented move, he retired from public life in 1990 a hero to freedom loving Chileans. Communism makes inroads during economic crisis and often employs violence and terror as well to make the argument for totalitarianism. Allende deliberately created dire economic conditions and introduced an unprecedented level of violence so as to create the right "conditions" for a Castro style takeover. His dastardly plot was dashed by the heroic efforts of General Pinochet. The blood soaked, International Communist behemoth was defeated and for this, they will forever despise General Pinochet.
I'll post more articles and if i can find them declassified documents on the matter.
Im speechless.. You call that friggin Pinochet a hero??
Read this
Types of Human Rights Violations
1973 - 1990
The types of repression used in Chile by the military regime included: arbitrary arrest, imprisonment, torture, forced disappearances, summary executions, collective executions, the negation of the right to appeal War Council sentences, homicide, exile, internal exile, abduction, intimidation, attempted homicide, death treats, raids, dismissal from jobs and surveillance. Such treatment violated the following rights: the right to life, the right to personal integrity, the right to personal liberty, the right to personal security and the right to live in one’s country.
Violation of the right to life:
Death. Carried out through executions, after being made to disappear, through torture, in alleged armed confrontations, premeditated homicide, abuse of power and others.
Disappearances.
"Can anyone explain why Alejandro was sentenced to die without a trial? Why were his remains buried clandestinely in Army property? Why were his detention, murder and burial concealed for 15 years? Who is responsible..."
Violation of the right to physical integrity:
Torture. Various methods of torture: physical and psychological, electrocution, sexual violence, blows, forced intake of drugs, burning, immersion in liquids.
Cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
Frustrated homicide attempts.
Wounding.
Violation of the right to personal freedom:
Arbitrary detentions. Selective, individual arrests, and arrests during protests, mass raids and kidnappings.
Political prisoners.
Internal exile, to distant and isolatedplaces.
Violation of the right to personal security:
Harassment and threats.
Raids.
Violation of the right to live in one’s country:
Exile.
Refugees.
State Terrorism
The application of the National Security Doctrine by the state during the 1973 to 1990 period culminated in the most systematic and massive violation of human rights in Chile’s recent history. The following is a brief description of some cases which characterize the types of state terrorism applied throughout the 17 years of military rule:
- The bombing of the presidential palace La Moneda on September 11, 1973, in which President Salvador Allende dies before his ministers and collaborators are detained and many of them killed or disappeared.
- The execution of seven people arrested in Curacavà on September 17, 1973. Out of the seven people that are taken away to be executed, two survive. One of these, José Barrera, after finding out through the Defense Ministry that he is no longer wanted, stops living a clandestine life and returns to Curacavà in March 1974, only to be arrested once more. He becomes one of the disappeared.
- The execution of 19 people from Laja and San Rosendo by Carabineros police from Laja. They are executed September 18, 1973, on the road to Los Angeles and their bodies concealed.
- Jose Gabriel Campos Morales, a 26 year old farm worker and union leader, was at home when soldiers arrested him on September 18, 1973. Taken initially to the Linares public jail, he was later brought to Investigations police headquarters in Constitucion, from which place he was not seen or heard from since.
- The execution of 18 rural workers from Paine September 24, 1973 by officials from the San Bernardo regiment.
- The execution of an estimated 22 people in the southern city of Valdivia in October, 1973 by Army personnel.
- The execution of six political prisoners shot while allegedly trying to escape, in Pisagua, September 30, 1973.
- The execution of four university students in Cauquenes, October 3, 1973 by local military personnel.
- The execution of 13 farm workers in Mulchén in October, 1973 by a group of Carabineros police, military personnel and civilians.
- The execution of 72 political prisoners between October 15 and 19, 1973 in the cities of La Serena, Copiapó, Antofagasta and Calama, at the hands of the so-called "Caravan of Death," a military delegation headed by General Sergio Arellano Stark.
- The death March 14, 1974, of Air Force General Alberto Bachelet as a result of torture.
- An elementary school teacher and former secretary to a Communist member of Congress, Elsa Victoria Leuthner Munoz, who was married and mother of three, was apprehended by agents of the DINA secret police while at a friend's house. Her whereabouts have been unknown since the time of her arrest on August 15, 1974.
- Death of former Army head General Carlos Prats and his wife SofÃa Cuthbert in Buenos Aires, Argentina September 29, 1974, as a result of a car bomb.
- Publication July 23, 1974, in Brazil and Argentina of a list of 119 disappeared Chileans who were reported dead in alleged internal MIR party purges and alleged armed confrontations.
- Murder of Spanish diplomat Carmelo Soria in July, 1976. His tortured and strangled body was found in a canal July 16. His death occurred at the hands of DINA agents.
- Homicide of former Chilean UP minister Orlando Letelier September 21, 1976, in Washington, D.C. as a result of a car bomb, which also killed his US assistant, Ronnie Moffitt.
- Death of journalism student Eduardo Jara Aravena July 23, 1980, as a result of prolonged torture by Covema a paramilitary organization supporting Pinochet, which kidnapped Jara along with a number of other people suspected of being involved in the July 15 murder of Army intelligence head, Coronel Roger Vergara.
- Homicide by stabbing and shooting of union leader Tucapel JÃmenez, February 25, 1982.
- Twelve-year-old Francisco Antonio Fuenzalida died in his home March 27, 1984, from a bullet fired from a helicopter by Carabineros police attempting to disperse a neighborhood protest in Santiago against the military regime.
- Death of Loreto Castillo, May 16, 1984. The victim is tied to an electricity pylon and blown up with dynamite.
- Kidnapping and murder of three Communist Party members, Manuel Guerrero, Jose Manuel Parada and Santiago Nattino. All three are found with their throats slit March 29, 1985.
- Death of young brothers Rafael and Eduardo Vergara, both of whom are shot by Carabineros police March 29, 1985 on a Santiago street. On the same day, 20-year old Paulina Aguirre is shot dead by CNI agents.
- The young photographer, Rodrigo Rojas is burnt to death on a Santiago street by a military patrol July 2, 1986. At the same time, Carmen Gloria Quintana is also doused with petrol and burnt alive. She survives with horrifying burns to 60 % of her body. Rodrigo Rojas was one of seven people killed on July 2 and 3, 1986 while participating in street protests against the military regime.
- Kidnapping and shooting to death of four opponents of the regime: José Carrasco, Abraham Muskablit, Felipe Rivera and Gastón Vidaurrázaga. They are killed between September 8 and 9, 1986, by armed civilians calling themselves the "September 11 Commando" who claim to be taking vengeance for a failed attempt the day before on Pinochet’s life by members of the Manuel RodrÃguez Patriotic Front (FPMR).
- Twelve members of the FPMR are murdered by the CNI between June 15 and 16, 1987 in Santiago in the so-called "Albania Operation," otherwise known as the "Corpus Christi Massacre."
- Death by shooting of MIR party leader Jecar Neghme September 4, 1989 in Santiago.
Who were the victims?
In the months immediately following the regime, the majority of those who become victims of the violation of human rights were:
- Leaders and collaborators of the Popular Unity government
- People who sympathized or were suspected or accused of sympathizing with the UP government
- Leaders, members and sympathizers of leftist political parties, that is, the Revolutionary Left Movement, (MIR), the Communist Party (PC), the Socialist Party (PS), the Christian Left (IC), the MAPU; some members of the Radical Party (PR) and the Christian Democrats (PDC) also became victims at this stage
- Trade Union leaders and workers
- In the countryside, leaders and sympathizers of the agrarian reform movement were targeted as well as people accused or perceived to be sympathizers of the left
- The family members and close friends of the above groups of victims were also targeted by the regime’s repressive agencies
- The regime also targeted representatives from the cultural world, intellectuals and university personnel and students
- Military personnel, ranging from conscripts to high-ranking officers, including a former commander in chief who opposed the military coup and the actions of the repressive agencies, also became victims of violations of all the human rights mentioned above
Throughout the regime, the above named continued to be targets of repression.
As the opposition to the regime began to take shape and Chile’s political parties and social organizations started to organize in the mid 70's and into the 80's, repression by agents of the state was aimed at members of other organizations such as:
- Human rights activists.
- Members of organizations created by relatives of victims of executions, forced disappearances and political imprisonment.
- Religious leaders and members of religious movements who opposed the regime.
- Members of the armed opposition to Pinochet’s regime, for instance the Manuel RodrÃguez Patriotic Front.
- Members of leftist social and political organizations which sprang up as opposition to the regime.
- The family members and friends of the aforementioned groups, also became subject to arrest, imprisonment, torture, vigilance, exile, internal exile among other violations of human rights.
During the 1980’s, arrests, physical violence and shooting deaths became common during the national protests which emerged and gained strength during the period.
The report of the National Truth and Reconciliation Commission, created in 1991 by the civilian government of Patricio Aylwin, also identified a group of victims it categorized as "victims of political violence." In other words, throughout the period of military rule, not all the victims were targeted beforehand. For instance, the Rettig Report cites a number of deaths which occurred as a result of shooting by military personnel on bystanders and pedestrians during raids and protests. It also cites deaths resulting from stray military bullets which penetrated the walls of the victims’ homes, as well as victims killed for violating the curfew imposed by the military
Statistics
(From the book La memoria y el olvido: Detenidos Desaparecidos en Chile
by Elias Padilla, 1995, Ediciones Origenes.)
So widespread was the repression unleashed upon Chile’s population, that some sectors immediately organized in order to assist the victims of human rights violations, despite the real dangers this posed. By doing so - organizations such as the Catholic church’s Comité para la Paz (Peace Committee), created in October 1973, and the Vicaria de la Solidaridad, founded January 1976, as well as a large number of non-government organizations - managed to collect data and information which to the present date give an insight into the extensive scope of repression carried out by agents of the state.
From March 1974 onward, the Comité para la Paz began to receive large numbers of protective writs from family members of people imprisoned or disappeared. By the end of 1974, the Committee had received 1,341 such writs. From 1976 -1985 the Vicaria assisted 34,000 people with legal, social, medical or psychotherapeutic assistance.
"According to figures given by the military regime and registered by the Vicaria de la Solidaridad, between 1973 and 1975 there were 42,486 political detentions. Also, according to the Vicaria, between 1976 to 1988, 12,134 people were individually arrested for political reasons and 26,431 collective arrests took place. Between 1977 to 1988 4,134 persons were threatened or harassed, 1,008 were victims of forced disappearance and 2,100 people died for political reasons." (Estado, Poder, Persona, Vol. II, CODEPU, 1995)
The Latin American Institute on Mental Health and Human Rights (ILAS), created in 1988 with the aim of assisting victims of human rights violations, estimates that 10 % of the total population of Chile in the early 1980s was affected by a repressive situation. ILAS defines a "repressive situation", as arrests for any length of time, threats, a relative in prison, killed or disappeared, as well as expulsion for political reasons from the place of work or university. ILAS cautions that this figure is conservative. Of this total ILAS believes "situations of extreme trauma" affected some 200,000 persons, a figure derived from the numbers of prisoners in detention camps until 1975, persons forced into exile, persons tortured, executed or disappeared, and their immediate family.
The Rettig Report and the National Corporation for Reconciliation and Reparation, established January 3, 1992 to continue the work of the Rettig Commission, concluded in 1996 that:
- A total of 3,197 people died or went missing between September 11, 1973 and March 11, 1990 as a result of human rights violations at the hands of the state agents of repression.
- Of these 1,102 classify as disappeared and 2,095 as deaths.
The Rettig Report and the National Corporation for Reconciliation and Reparation only investigated those cases which concluded in death or disappearance. They did not take into account the thousands of cases of torture and imprisonment which took place during the period of military rule.
But better as I said, read the link
http://www.lakota.clara.net/derechos/victims.htm
Double standards i'd say
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