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Topic: Chilean amnesty law thrown out; Pinochet et al to face charges
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'lance
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posted 17 November 2004 09:22 PM
quote: SANTIAGO - Chile's Supreme Court has struck down an amnesty law that former dictator Augusto Pinochet passed in 1978, shielding military and police officers in the country from prosecution for human rights violations during the early years of his rule. It's estimated more than 3,000 people were kidnapped and murdered from 1973 to 1978, the first five years after the right-wing Pinochet staged a coup to take over Chile. The ruling means cases involving the disappearance of more than 1,200 of Pinochet's political opponents during those five years can finally go ahead.
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lagatta
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posted 18 November 2004 02:04 PM
You are certainly right about the progressive and human rights Chilean Catholics, Jeff. But didn't Pinochet present himself (like his Argentinean counterparts) as a defender of Christianity as well as fighting "Communism"?There are many, many liberation theology types in the Brazilian PT as well - but ... my memory of this is fuzzy - wasn't Opus Dei or some other far-right Catholic movement involve in the Brazilian coup of 1964? I confess I was making a bit of an analogy (questionable, as all such analogies are) with the current talk of "Islamofascism". There are many other differences between the dictatorships of the Southern Cone and European fascist movements, of course.
From: Se non ora, quando? | Registered: Apr 2002
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