Reply #18: Tortured by a hideous regime Nixon chose and backed to overthrow the people's choice. [View All]

He was the UNWANTED killer dictator whom Nixon backed to seize an entire country and keep it in terror, awaiting his master's orders from Washington day by day, boasting of his power as being so great that "not a blade of grass dares to move without (Pinochet's) permission."

It was only last week that I heard of the "Ovens of Lonquen" for the first time, used to BURN dissidents for Pinochet:

OVENS OF LONQUÉN

A Painful Discovery

"Yellowing splinters of skull with some traces of head hair; some loose, black, hairs; torn clothing which can be recognized as being from a pair of jeans, a man’s sweater..."

(A description by the assistant director of the Hoy magazine, Abraham Santibañez, of the human remains found in the limestone ovens in Lonquen, November 30, 1978.)

Those were some of the remains of the 15 men arrested on the 7th of October 1973, in the rural community of Isla de Maipo, and whose whereabouts were unknown until the end of 1978, when the ovens of Lonquen were discovered.

The discovery, which shook public opinion, became a painful landmark in the history of the disappeared in Chile - a story that began in 1973 with the military coup - for it confirmed the suspicion held by many relatives of the disappeared that their loved ones were indeed dead. The regime could no longer continue claiming - as Sergio Diez, the Chilean delegate before the United Nations General Assembly did on November 7, 1975 - that "many of the supposedly disappeared do not legally exist."

It was in the Isla de Maipo police headquarters that the 15 men, aged between 17 and 51, were last seen alive. Sergio Maureira Lillo and his four sons, Rodolfo Antonio, Sergio Miguel, Segundo Armando and Jose Manuel; Oscar Hernandez Flores and his brothers Carlos and Nelson; Enrique Astudillo Alvarez and his two sons Omar and Ramon; and four young men: Miguel Brant, Ivan Ordoñez, Jose Herrera and Manuel Navarro, all disappeared after being arrested by Isla de Maipo Carabineros police under orders of police chief Lautaro Castro Mendoza.

Their relatives, whose intense search for their loved ones led invariably to nothing, learned of the men’s fate only five years later, when their remains were discovered in the abandoned limestone ovens of Lonquen.
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http://www.chipsites.com/derechos/history_eng.html

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DU'er Say_What says the ovens of Lonquen are mentioned in a book written by Salvador Allende's daughter, the writer Isabelle Allende.

Pinochet can also be thanked, like the military junta supported directly by Kissinger in Argentina, for bringing the practice of throwing political prisoners OUT OF GODDAMNED HELICOPTERS AND AIRPLANES, dropping them into the sea, lakes, rivers, and crushing them upon the Andes mountaintops, after drugging them just enough to make them manageable.

THAT'S the kind of trash our Republican pResidents have been shoving into office in other people's countries, after the people voted for someone far different.