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Clashes in tribute to Pinochet victims
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by rahul | September 14, 2008 at 01:26 pm
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Since 1973, September 11 has been a sad date for Latin Americans. It marks the end of the democratic government of Salvador Allende and the outset of the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-90). Recent clashes at the tribute of the victims of Pinochet dictatorship shows once more that justice distribution is still pending in Chile.
2008-09-14 22:08:02 - SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - A march to pay tribute to victims of the 1973-90 dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet has ended in clashes with police.
As some 3,000 people marched Sunday to the city's main cemetery, masked demonstrators threw rocks and bottles at police and vandalized shops, traffic signals and public garbage cans. Police have reacted with water cannons and tear gas and say 19 demonstrators were detained. More arrests are expected. The march and the clashes have ended at a memorial wall bearing names of the victims of dictatorship repression. The event was organized around the 35th anniversary of the Sep. 11, 1973 coup led by Pinochet.
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at 22:49 on September 14th, 2008
rahul, I like this story. It's good stuff.
My parents had to evacuate Chile as it became more and more unstable in the early 1970s. Pinochet's actions in the past are remarkably similar to Bush's today.
Torture. Murder. Kidnappings. Secret Prisons. Concentration Camps. War. Impunity.
And they are/were both funded from the same source...the American taxpayer...
35 years not much has changed.....