Chile's Rights Museum to honor dirty war victims

[Judi Lynn]

Chile's Rights Museum to honor dirty war victims
6/17/2009, 11:25 a.m. EDT
The Associated Press

(AP) — SANTIAGO, Chile - Chile's leader says she hopes her people will never forget the human rights violations committed under the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

President Michelle Bachelet held a ceremony thanking people who donated material to a new Museum of Memory and Human Rights opening in December.

The exhibits will include images, testimonials and other material documenting the dirty war, including a flag from the presidential palace that was attacked during Pinochet's military coup of 1973 and a diary kept by a convicted torturer.

Bachelet said Tuesday that these objects are "signs of humanity, of solidarity and hope in the darkness," and that the museum "will be a place of peace, friendship and brotherhood." According to an official report, 3,197 people were killed for political reasons during the dictatorship.

Bachelet, herself briefly imprisoned by the dictatorship that ended in 1990, said no one can deny or minimize this tragedy, and that Chileans must reflect on the past so that the sad history is never repeated.

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[rabs]

1. Think maybe we should clue in the AP that the term "Dirty War"

refers to Argentina, not Chile?

From Wiki,

The Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra Sucia) refers to the state-sponsored violence against Argentine citizenry from roughly 1976 to 1983 carried out primarily by Jorge Rafael Videla's military government.

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I have never heard any Chilean use the term "dirty war" for what happened during the Pinochet era. It is always "la represion durante la era Pinochetista."


and then the AP says this:

Bachelet, herself briefly imprisoned by the dictatorship that ended in 1990,

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During that AP "briefly imprisoned" period Bachelet and her mother were both tortured at the Villa Grimaldi. A lot of people did not survive Villa Grimaldi. Her father, Air Force Gen. Alberto Bachelet died in a Santiago prison after months of severe torture because he had opposed the Pinochet coup.

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AP has become really sloppy in its reporting anymore.