Important article which tells us, who didn't know, when Chile started investigating Pinochet's evil

[Judi Lynn]

crimes against humanity. Just found it, recognized the name of the journalist to be highly respectable, realized it would be useful to many here who also didn't know about Chile due to our own total news blackout on the torture and slaughter of "leftists," real or imagined, via the corporate "news" media here.

Chile's family torture sessions shock nation
(The Observer, 17th March 1991)

Santiago (by Hugh O'Shaughnessy).- Chile is struggling under a
crushing burden of deep grief and high cant this weekend. The grief
is to be found among the tens of thousands of people who this month
are being given the first official explanation of how their loved
ones were slowly tortured or quickly murdered during the 17-year
dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

Meanwhile, a torrent of hypocrisy is coming from the military and
from the senior judges, editors and journalists, who for years
betrayed their callings and acted as if no atrocities were taking
place.

As Patricio Aylwin, the cautious, grey President whom Chileans
elected to succeed the dictator, starts his second year in office,
the crimes of Pinochet's regime have at last been officially
collated, examined, acknowledged and published -allowing a multitude
of people to mourn their friends and relations openly for the first
time.

The grief is very deep. A week after publication of the report
-written by an official Committee on Truth and Reconciliation,
headed by a distinguished parliamentarian, Raul Rettig -the
newspapers are loaded with extracts tens of thousands words long,
which eager readers are studying.

More:
http://www.rrojasdatabank.info/crime1.htm

[Judi Lynn]

1. Chile to launch first probe into Allende's death

Chile to launch first probe into Allende's death
By Roser Toll (AFP) – Jan 27, 2011

SANTIAGO — Chile is launching its first investigation into the death of socialist president Salvador Allende whose body was found in the presidential palace during a 1973 coup, officials said on Thursday.

Until now Allende's death, during the bloody US-backed coup that brought military dictator Augusto Pinochet to power on September 11, 1973, had officially been ruled a suicide.

"What has not been investigated, the courts will investigate," said prosecutor Beatriz Pedrals, who has filed suit to probe 726 cases of alleged human rights abuse, including against Allende.

"This will finally establish what happened," she said, adding she hoped all those responsible would be prosecuted and treated equally.

The probe is part of the investigation of hundreds of human rights complaints against Pinochet's 1973-1990 military dictatorship.

More:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hSK1FrB9bGk7el6UJrF81L2O_nTA?docId=CNG.54f8a5486ee9404d5a4fa50d7aa2cd57.941

[EFerrari]

2. Thank you, Judi Lynn.

I don't know this material very well. K&R