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...Like the earlier attempts to prosecute former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet, the Milosevic trial further erodes a time-honored tradition of peacefully easing dictators out of power by offering them comfortable retirement on the French Riviera. Would Pinochet or Haiti's "Baby Doc" Duvalier have handed over power if all they had to look forward to was court and prison? Unlikely. But advocates of justice-without-borders and geopolitical imperatives counter by asking whether the prospect of trial and punishment might not have restrained their behavior while in power. As complicated as the precedent set by Milosevic's trial...
...Losers ABDURRAHMAN WAHID People Power III? Like Estrada, Indonesia's P.M. is losing allies and sliding toward impeachment AUGUSTO PINOCHET UGARTE Quick, act sick! Judge puts Chile's ex-dictator under house arrest on murder and kidnap charges SEGA Dream-cast aside. Company to halt production of console. What's a hedgehog to do? Verbatim...
...AUGUSTO PINOCHET UGARTE, ex-Chilean dictator, denying that he ordered the execution of more than 70 political prisoners...
Santiago Chile?s armed forces admitted for the first time in 27 years that they executed about 150 political dissidents after General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte overthrew Salvador Allende Gossens? Marxist government in 1973, and then dumped the bodies into the Pacific Ocean, lakes and rivers. They also acknowledged that another 50 people were buried in clandestine graves throughout the country. The armed forces agreed in mid-1999 to produce information on the fate of more than 1,000 ?detained-disappeared,? provided that they wouldn?t be prosecuted; despite a wide campaign for information, however, about 800 people still remain unaccounted...
...Last November, in an event marking his 85th birthday, Pinochet made a widely reported speech in which he accepted political responsibility for the excesses committed by the armed forces during his 17-year reign. And yet in his answers to Judge Guzman, Pinochet was not exactly heroic. In fact, it looks an awful lot like the man who'd headed the junta was trying to shift responsibility back down the chain of command, to the officers in charge of those garrisons visited by the "Caravan of Death." And, of course, the military is having none of it. They've always...