Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
Hawco - are you a left leaning person, a socialist or perhaps a closeted communist?
[In September, 1973,] General Pinochet, with the assistance of the CIA
and the ITT Corporation, took over the government of Chile, bombing the
presidential palace of elected socialist Salvador Allende, and murdering him.
Victor was singing for students at the university when the whole area was
surrounded. All within were taken prisoner and marched to a large soccer stadium, Estadio Chile. For three days it was a scene of horror. Torture,
executions. An officer thought he recognized Victor, pointed at him with a
questioning look and motioning as if strumming a guitar. Victor nodded.
He was seized, taken to the center of the stadium and told to put his hands
on a table. While his friends watched in horror, rifle butts beat his hands to
bloody pulp. "All right, sing for us now, you ---," shouted the officer. [Victor
Stagg SKW apr00]
Chile was a great place unless you were one of these poor souls, or the thousands of others who dissapeared.
Conveniently ignoring the fact that Allende's government was democratically elected (on an increased majority for it's second term as well).
You are attempting to lead us to believe that the overthrow of this government and the transformation of the Santiago Stadium into a concentration camp was a legitimate and indeed beneficial twist of history for Chile and humankind? That you would suggest such a thing is abhorrent and says much about the values held within right-wing circles worldwide. Democracy is fine until such times as an attempt is made to bring about social reforms of benefit to the many as opposed to the 'elite'. Do you support Pinochet's methods?
I would suggest you read some newspaper articles which interviews survivors of Pinochet's genocide if for nothing else to gain some sense of what his rule meant in terms of human suffering.
