Word: pinochets
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Yesterday, Chile’s Court of Appeals upheld the decision, made last week by Santiago judge Juan Guzmán, to indict former dictator Augusto Pinochet for allegedly ordering the kidnapping of nine people and the murder of another, between 1976 and 1977. While it is absolutely laudable that, six years after his arrest in London in 1998, the 89-year-old General Pinochet may, at last, be held to account for at least some of the abuses of his brutal regime (which lasted from 1973 until 1990), Chilean jurists must be cautious not to circumvent due process...
...Pinochet seized power in Chile in a U.S.-supported coup that toppled socialist president Salvador Allende. The military dictatorship that followed resulted in appalling violence. 3,000 Chileans lost their lives and thousands more were tortured throughout the regime’s 17 years in power...
...Witness to Atrocity CHILE President Ricardo Lagos hailed the completion of an official report on torture and political detention during General Augusto Pinochet's 1973-1990 dictatorship as "a historic step" for a nation coming to terms with its past. The study, based on testimony from 35,000 victims, will be made public in December...
STRIPPED. AUGUSTO PINOCHET, 88, Chilean President from 1973 to 1990; of immunity from prosecution, in a 9-8 vote by Chile's Supreme Court; in Santiago. The decision opens the way for a possible trial on charges of human-rights abuses for Pinochet's crackdown on dissidents in the 1970s and '80s in which at least 19 Chileans are believed to have died...
...STRIPPED. AUGUSTO PINOCHET, 88, Chilean President from 1973 to 1990; of immunity from prosecution in a 9-8 vote by the nation's Supreme Court; in Santiago. The decision paves the way for a possible indictment on charges of human-rights abuses for a crackdown on dissidents in the 1970s and '80s in which at least 19 Chileans are believed to have died. The general's lawyers have argued that he is physically and mentally unfit to stand trial...