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| Topic | Never Forget 9/11/1973 |
| averagejoel 09/11/17 6:40:57 PM #1: | the US overthrew Salvador Allende, a democratically elected socialist in Chile, and replaced him with Augusto Pinochet, a brutal dictator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_in_Pinochet%27s_Chile The most prevalent forms of state-sponsored torture that Chilean prisoners endured were electric shocks, waterboarding, beatings, and sexual abuse. Another common mechanism of torture employed was "disappearing" those who were deemed to be potentially subversive because they adhered to leftist political doctrines. The tactic of "disappearing" the enemies of the Pinochet regime was systematically carried out during the first four years of military rule. The "disappeared" were held in secret, subjected to torture and were often never seen again. Both the National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture (Valech Report) and the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation (Rettig Report) approximate that there were around 30,000 victims of human rights abuses in Chile, with 27,255 tortured and 2,279 executed. --- peanut butter and dick ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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