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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 05:44 PM Aug 2014

Bones found near dictatorship torture chamber in Chile

Source: Agence France-Presse

Bones found near dictatorship torture chamber in Chile   
By AFP
41 mins ago

Human bones have been found near a military base in central Chile where political prisoners were tortured during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, officials said Friday.

"They are human remains, but what has not been determined yet is the date" of death, forensics director Patricio Bustos told journalists, saying specialists continued working in the area under heavy police guard.

He said the remains appeared to be from more than one person.

An estimated 3,200 people died or went missing during Chile's bloody 1973-1990 dictatorship. Another 38,000 were tortured under Pinochet, who died in 2006.

The bones were found on a farm near the Tejas Verdes military base outside the resort town of Santo Domingo on the central coast.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/bones-found-near-dictatorship-torture-chamber-in-chile/article/394322#ixzz39B7tpG1C



Chile and the United States: Declassified Documents Relating to the Military Coup, September 11, 1973
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/nsaebb8i.htm
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Bones found near dictatorship torture chamber in Chile (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2014 OP
K&R Solly Mack Aug 2014 #1
Kissinger & Bush Sr billhicks76 Aug 2014 #7
More from a longer version of the same AFP story: Judi Lynn Aug 2014 #2
The impact of policies and atrocities committed 40 years ago are reverberating still today NBachers Aug 2014 #3
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Aug 2014 #4
This is what, the fifth or sixth uncovering of murdered and/or discarded humans from all over ... marble falls Aug 2014 #5
thanx a lot Dick and Hank Botany Aug 2014 #6
Another 9/11 to remember. Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2014 #8
The "libertarian" hero? DBoon Aug 2014 #9
Another one of our allies. We sure know how to pick 'em. Comrade Grumpy Aug 2014 #10
 

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)
7. Kissinger & Bush Sr
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 08:33 PM
Aug 2014

Their handiwork and they taught Bush Jr well...and Obama it appears as he rushes to their defense. Wonder what they are blackmailing him with.

Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)
2. More from a longer version of the same AFP story:
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 05:50 PM
Aug 2014

~snip~
A judge had ordered a search in the area after receiving information that human remains were located there.

More than 100 people were held at Tejas Verdes after the coup that overthrew the leftist government of Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973.

The inmates were subjected to torture by agents of the military regime, according to Memoria Viva, an organization that tracks information on victims of the dictatorship.

The Association of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared (AFDD) said the location of the find strongly suggested a link to the dictatorship.

"We're talking about a spot that's very near, almost adjoining, the Tejas Verdes regiment, so that generates a lot of expectations about the case," said AFDD president Lorena Pizarro.

http://news.yahoo.com/bones-found-near-dictatorship-torture-chamber-chile-204125551.html

NBachers

(17,120 posts)
3. The impact of policies and atrocities committed 40 years ago are reverberating still today
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 05:52 PM
Aug 2014

The impact of policies and atrocities committed today will be reverberating 40 years in the future.

marble falls

(57,106 posts)
5. This is what, the fifth or sixth uncovering of murdered and/or discarded humans from all over ...
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 06:01 PM
Aug 2014

the world in the last two or three months. None of us from anywhere is so very civilized, are we?

But if I were asked to pick any nation in the world where body dumps might be reasonably expected to turn up - Chile would be on the list. As well would be any nation where there has been any US military interactions.

DBoon

(22,369 posts)
9. The "libertarian" hero?
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 09:55 PM
Aug 2014

Milton Friedman's confidant?

The man Maggie Thatcher had tea with and found to be absolutely charming?

The evil Pinochet did extended far beyond the bounds of Chile, and with the active support of many who still hold the reigns of power

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