Calls for 'silent goal' as Chile remembers coup victims

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

6 Sep 2013 - 8:56am
Calls for 'silent goal' as Chile remembers coup victims

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's football team and fans are being encouraged not to celebrate their first goal in Friday's World Cup qualifier against Venezuela in memory of thousands who were tortured 40 years ago at the match's venue.

Days after a military coup on 11 September 1973, around 12,000 suspected leftists were rounded up and herded into the National Stadium, which was used as an interrogation and torture centre.

The viral campaign, #goldesilencio (silent goal), which quickly trended on Twitter, is ran by human rights campaigners Amnesty International.

A video uses footage of the time with words superimposed saying: "To all Chile's players we want to ask that when the first goal arrives - don't shout.

"Keep down in your throat that shout that comes from the soul. Squeeze your fist so your hand doesn't raise to the sky. And if you really want to celebrate, make the stadium quiet."


Read more: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/09/06/calls-silent-goal-chile-remembers-coup-victims

[onehandle]

1. That was disgusting. How many so called 'Democratic' Underground members remember that atrocity?

Few, is my guess.

[Skittles]

2. a lot of them weren't even born then

but I remember

[Octafish]

14. Some try to keep the memory alive.

From 2004:

Know your BFEE: A Crime Line of Treason

From 2006:

Know your BFEE: Los Amigos de Bush

There are others.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Did US Intelligence Help Pinochet's Junta Murder My Brother?

Did US Intelligence Help Pinochet's Junta Murder My Brother?

Forty years ago, Frank was abducted, tortured, and killed. How did the Chilean military know his address?

—By Janis Teruggi Page
| Sat Sep. 21, 2013 3:36 AM PDT

On September 21, 1973, a 24-year-old U.S. citizen named Frank Teruggi Jr. was executed in the National Stadium in Santiago, Chile, one of the first of thousands of victims of General Augusto Pinochet’s murderous 17-year military dictatorship. In the wake of the U.S.-backed coup that cost Frank, and so many others, their lives, I lost my older brother. Forty years after his death, my family is still seeking a modicum of truth and justice for his murder.

The story of Frank’s experience in Chile is not well-known. He was an anti-Vietnam war activist from Chicago—as a student at CalTech, he started an SDS chapter there—who enrolled in the University of Chile in early 1972, drawn by the promise of Salvador Allende’s “peaceful road to socialism.” Along with a group of North American expats that included Charles Horman, the other U.S. citizen killed in the stadium, Frank worked at a small newsletter called FIN (Fuente de Informacion Norteamericano) translating and distributing articles on the activities of the U.S. government and corporations in Chile.

During the last 20 months of his life, he sent letters home every two weeks keeping us up-to-date on his activities, as well as the increasingly dangerous political situation. When some of his letters didn’t arrive, he wrote, presciently: “Perhaps the FBI is intercepting my mail.” In another letter he cautioned, “When you get calls from people wanting my address, tell them you don’t have it. This is just a reasonable precaution in case some agency starts checking up on people in Chile. From what we read in papers down here about Watergate, Nixon’s not above doing anything or spying on anyone.”

Frank actually planned on returning home in the early summer of 1973. But a failed coup attempt in late June set off public demonstrations in support of Allende. During one march, Frank suffered a bullet wound to his ankle that required time for healing. He then decided to stay in Santiago a little longer to help establish an anti-imperialism research center at the University of Chile.

More:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/09/us-intelligence-pinochet-junta-murder

[christx30]

4. Pinochet is a hero to

Many on the right. Pretty much all you need to know about them.

[Archae]

5. Most notoriously Ann Coulter.

[christx30]

6. Of course,

I've seen praises of Stalin and Mao here on DU. So, neither side is free from praise of murderous assholes.

[2ndAmForComputers]

8. Links or it didn't happen.

[JackRiddler]

9. Bullshit - you're making it up.

Show or retract.

[Judi Lynn]

11. No, that doesn't seem familiar at all, actually. Why would you say that? Bored?

Or haunting the opposition's gathering place for communication?

[Kingofalldems]

12. Let's see it there kid. I have seen no such thing since 2004.

Did you make that up?

[Kingofalldems]

13. What mainstream or any other stream Democrat praises

either Stalin or Mao, ala Ann Coulter? Names please.

[roody]

7. Did the silent goal happen?

[JackRiddler]

10. Doesn't sound like it...

The game went to Chile, 3-0.

Here is first goal:

Doesn't show the field for long to determine if the players are making any such gesture. It's from TV so you've got the gooooooooooooooool guy but it also sounds like the crowd is loud.

I don't know this was a good idea, though it made huge English-language press (google "silent goal&quot I doubt it got out to people actually in attendance.