Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Letelier was killed last week when a bomb exploded in his car in Washington, D.C. He was in exile and the Chilean government had recently revoked his citizenship...
...Chilean refugee programs are struggling by comparison with programs for refugees from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, Parvey said. Those programs benefited from massive government involvement and publicity while the Chilean programs are "just being done from the heart" by a few Jewish and Christian congregations...
...DINA is fairly ecumenical in finding victims; former parliamentarians and army officers have been tortured, as well as suspect leftist terrorists. Recounts Carlos Pérez Tobar, once a lieutenant in the Chilean army arrested by the junta after he tried to resign his commission: "I was tortured with electric shock, forced to live in underground dungeons so small that in one I could only stand up and in the other only lie down. I was beaten incessantly, dragged before a mock firing squad, and regularly told that my wife and child and relatives were suffering the same fate...
...picked up by their torturer-interrogators. The prisoner is usually hooded or blindfolded. Sessions often begin quietly; physical torture starts only after the interrogator has built himself up to a feigned or genuine anger, which Andrew Blane of Amnesty International calls "an emotional state of furious self-righteousness." Some Chilean prisoners have reported torturers calling a prisoner to an interrogation session with the phrase "It's time to go to work." In Iran, where, as in many other countries, women are routinely raped during torture sessions, Reza Baraheni once watched a 13-year-old female prisoner calmly introduce her interrogator...
...happened, the Chileans accepted Kissinger's statement on human rights somewhat better than expected. The Secretary briefed Pinochet on the substance of his speech before it was delivered; the Chilean strongman was apparently relieved that the text was not stronger...