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...AUGUSTO PINOCHET UGARTE Ex-junta biggie can be extradited on torture charges. Bon voyage from victims' families...
...ghost of CHARLES HORMAN continues to haunt the CIA. The American expatriate, killed during the 1973 coup led by Chilean General AUGUSTO PINOCHET UGARTE, was immortalized in the Oscar-winning 1982 movie Missing. His death and revelations of agency support for Pinochet helped lead to congressional oversight of CIA activities. In the wake of Pinochet's arrest last year in Britain, Clinton asked the agency and four other branches of government to review for release "all documents that shed light on human rights abuses, terrorism and political violence" from 1968 to 1991. The CIA has released only a fraction...
General Augusto Pinochet may prove to be one of the most unexpected casualties of the Kosovo war. The former Chilean dictator?s extradition case got under way in London Monday in an international legal climate much different from when he was first arrested last October. Spain wants Pinochet extradited to face trial for the systematic human rights abuses committed by his military junta between 1973 and 1990 (including, but not limited to, torture on Spanish citizens). Chile?s government is arguing that extraditing Pinochet violates Chile?s sovereignty, and that if he needs to be tried it should...
...since Pinochet?s arrest, Britain has joined the U.S. and other NATO allies in the Kosovo war, which was based on the idea that Yugoslavian sovereignty was less important than its crimes against humanity in Kosovo. Indeed, it becomes difficult while pressing for Slobodan Milosevic to be tried in the Hague for crimes against his own citizenry to argue that the charges against Pinochet ?- whose regime murdered at least 3,000 of its political opponents ?- are a domestic matter. But even if a British Magistrate?s Court upholds Spain?s extradition request, the 83-year-old general will still have...
Micah S. Meyers '00 is a history concentrator in Dunster House. He is a former employee of Garcs y de Prada, a Spanish law firm that represents the plaintiffs in the case against Pinochet...