'Lucid' Pinochet charged with murder

[G_j]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2429629,00.html

The Times October 31, 2006


'Lucid' Pinochet charged with murder
From Tom Hennigan in São Paulo

AUGUSTO PINOCHET, the 90-year-old former dictator of Chile, was branded a “grave danger to society” as he was placed under house arrest in Santiago yesterday by the judge investigating his role in cases of torture and kidnapping during his time in power.

Judge Alejandro Solís charged the general with 35 kidnappings, one homicide and 24 cases of torture in the Villa Grimaldi case. Villa Grimaldi was a secret police prison that became one of Chile’s most infamous torture centres during the military’s “dirty war” against left-wing opponents.

This is the first prosecution for torture to proceed against the former general.

“General Pinochet has been notified of his prosecution for kidnapping, one homicide and torture, and has been detained as a grave danger to society considering the gravity of the crimes. But, owing to his age, he has been granted house arrest,” Señor Solís said. On Friday the judge dismissed efforts by General Pinochet’s legal team to have the case dropped on the ground of health.

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[jobycom]

1. Hope I live long enough to see Bush get charged with murder.

[Delphinus]

6. Man, you took the words right out of my fingers!

That was my hope - if Pinochet can get charged after all these years, Bush will get his too. Hope he gets charged sooner rather than later.

[mom cat]

7. Me three! I never thought I would live to see the day that Pinochet got tried.

Maybe there is hope that somehow someday the Bush cabal will have to answer for their crimes.

[acmavm]

2. May a hangman's noose be the last thing this devil sees on

this earth.

And I wonder what new legislation our war criminals will be introducing to try to protect themselves from the same fate.

[gratuitous]

3. Take careful note, Mr. Bush

I don't think we'll have to wait until you're 90, though.

[Gregorian]

4. Finally.

It took a while.

This sends a message. You can't run and you can't hide, to paraphrase our own little Fascist.

[ronnykmarshall]

5. I hope that pig dies in a filthy prison.

He deserves nothing less that what he did to others.

[saigon68]

8. In Memory of Salvador Allende

http://www.neravt.com/left/allende.htm

In Memory of Salvador Allende and all the Other Victims of the Fascist, U.S. Sponsored Coup, September 11, 1973

[nealmhughes]

9. I hope that those who survived the Santiago Stadium and saw Victor Jara's

hands broken and him forced to "play" guitar and sing are sill around to give testimony.

As Joe Strummer sang:
"as every cell in Chile will tell the cries of the torutured men
Remember Allende in the days before, before the army came
Pelase remember Victor Jara in the Santiago Stadium
Es verdad, Washington Bullets again!

[DemoTex]

10. Henry Kissinger: Check six.

[G_j]

12. I hear ya... nt

[Judi Lynn]

11. I'm betting on yet another announcement of his sudden bad health.

He's done it before, and by golly, he's surely not above doing it again, sorry to say.

He's a Hitler who can hand it out, but he can't take it himself. The same man who used to say "Not a blade of grass grows in Chile without my permission" also will claim he's just a poor, old, sick guy who's too sick to stand trial.

They should divide his prison time among his NINE land torture centers, and also his THREE torture ships which he used to take prisoners offshore to torture them. It would only be fair.



I doubt they would lower themselves to his amazingly brutal torture practices, but for old times' sake, maybe they could revisit the occassion in which Chilean state police threw gasoline upon a couple of protestors and burned them. This was as recent as the 1980's. Pinochet's government became so unbearably brutal it eventually scared protestors so badly they gave up altogether. You have to wonder if that isn't the plan for every right-wing regime from now on.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION
ON HUMAN RIGHTS 1987-1988

CASE NO 01a/88

CASE 9755

CHILE

September 12, 1988

HAVING SEEN:

1. The various communications received by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights reporting that on the morning of July 2, 1986, during a protest demonstration called by groups in opposition to the Government of Chile, the youths, Rodrigo Rojas DeNegri and Carmen Gloria Quintana Arancibia, were arrested in a neighborhood of Santiago by an army patrol, searched, beaten, held within proximity of inflammable material, sprinkled with fuel, set on fire, and taken to a place on the outskirts of the city where they were unable to receive medical care, and there they were abandoned.

2. The subsequent death of Rodrigo Rojas DeNegri on July 6, 1986, as a result of burns received.

3. The intervention of the 19th Criminal Court of Santiago, which received, on July 3, 1986, at 12:15 a.m. and 12:45 a.m. testimony from the victims (Appendix 1), who stated that a group of military personnel had willfully set fire to them. This statement was later corroborated by Carmen Gloria Quintana in Montreal, Canada, on March 12, 1987 (Appendix 2).
(snip/...)

http://www.cidh.org/annualrep/87.88eng/Chile9755.htm





Gloria Carmen Quintana, before and after, Gloria Carman Quintana and the burned-to-death Rodrigo Rojas DeNegri

(After this nightmare, she got to Canada where she was able to receive treatment)