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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
According to the AP in 2002 (quick Google search): An official Chilean report concluded 3,197 people were killed for political reasons under Pinochet's regime.
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The quick web search I did put the estimate at 5,000:
- Pinochet — “in some ways, the perfect criminal because he had no compassion for his victims” — had an estimated 5,000 Chileans murdered, 1,200 of whom are still classified as “disappeared.” Many more were tortured. Hundreds of thousands of people were also imprisoned. Pinochet’s brand of state terrorism set a terrifying precedent in South America; the terror network known as “Operation Condor” was created by Pinochet’s head of secret police, Colonel Manuel Contreras. The network became formally established by an act of the First Inter-American Reunion on Military Intelligence in Chile in November 1975. From that point on, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Paraguay, among others, collectively participated in the extermination of political dissidents within their borders.
But that's from
some source at UC Berkeley, which is inherently suspect.
So by installing Pinochet, we got to help spread repression to Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay, too, helping to ensure the eventual triumph of democract there, too! Sweet!
Spanky, how are we supposed to decide which state-sponsored terrorists are bad for democracy, and which state-sponsored terrorists we should support to help the spread of democracy?
