Chile to Bury Remains Of Pinochet Lonquén Victims

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Santiago Times

Chile to Bury Remains Of Pinochet Lonquén Victims
Written by Mira Galanova
Friday, 26 March 2010 06:56
‘Photographer of the dead’ recalls documenting the abuse and his subsequent torture

Thirty-seven years after they were murdered by Pinochet´s police and almost 32 years after their bodies were discovered, the remains of 15 residents from small farming communities around Isla de Maipo and Paine will finally find their resting place this Sunday.

In November 1978, human bones were discovered in the oven of an abandoned mine in Santiago´s southern borough of Lonquén. These were what remained of 15 men, aged 17 to 51, detained under different circumstances in October 1973.

The discovery was a horrible blow to families of those who had been detained and disappeared during the 1973 – 1990 military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, confirming the horrible suspicion that their dearest were dead.

“Pinochet´s regime claimed that there were no disappeared prisoners in Chile,” photographer Luis Navarro, who was contracted by a local court to document the site in 1978, told the Santiago Times. “Lonquén was the first proof that this was not true.”






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[Jefferson23]

1. Horrific, ages 17 to 51 years old.

[Peace Patriot]

2. This is happening TODAY in the few remaining U.S. client states in Latin America!

Up to 2,000 bodies were found in a RECENT mass grave--grave dates (but no names) from 2005 through 2009--in La Macarena, Colombia. The Colombian military ($7 BILLION in U.S. taxpayer funding) says they are bodies of FARC guerrillas (as if anonymous death and mass graves would be justified in that case). Local people--speaking, of necessity, anonymously--say the bodies are of local 'disappeared' community activists. There is also a U.S. military (and apparently a U.K. military) connection to this massacre.

The La Macarena massacre (includes a description of, and links to docs about, U.S. ops in La Macarena)
http://www.cipcol.org/?p=1303

The UK military connection
http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2010/02/04/silence-on-british-army-link-to-colombian-mass-grave/

Tens of thousands of union leaders, human rights workers, community activists, peasant farmers, teachers, political leftists and others have been slaughtered in Colombia--in on-going mayhem. Amnesty International attributes 92% of the murders of union leaders in Colombia to the Colombian military (about half) and its closely tied rightwing paramilitary death squads (the other half). A recent UN report attributes 70% of all extrajudicial murders (union leaders and all others) in Colombia to the same parties in about the same proportion. Paid for by you and me.

And the latest of at least one hundred and fifty political murders in Honduras--of a teacher, a highly visible activist in the anti-coup movement, gunned down by masked assassins in front of his students--was reported here at DU yesterday. The judicial system was broken by the recent U.S. supported rightwing coup. No one is being caught or prosecuted for these murders, just as in Colombia. And U.S. tax dollars are flowing like a river to both the Colombian and Honduran governments and militaries.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4320151
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x33011

TODAY. NOW. With massive U.S. financial and propaganda support, and with U.S. military bases in these countries (SEVEN of them in Colombian!) and close cooperation between the U.S. military and the Colombian and Honduran militaries.

The same kind of horrors as occurred in Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela, Brazil, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and throughout Latin America, during the Pincohet period, with U.S. support, are occurring TODAY in Colombia and Honduras. That is why Colombia and Honduras are pariahs and the rest of Latin America is forming an all-Latin American organization without the U.S. as a member, to supplant the OAS. The U.S., no matter who is president, brings death and mayhem to Latin America.

[Blue_Tires]

3. k+r

[Wilms]

4. k&r n/t