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Thread #76479   Message #1355837
Posted By: Maryrrf
13-Dec-04 - 02:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: Hey Mr. Pinochet ...
Subject: RE: BS: Hey Mr. Pinochet ...
I'm glad to hear this. Back in the 70's when I lived in France I had many Chilean friends who were in exile (my husband at the time was one of them). At that time, shortly after the coup in '73, fully one tenth of Chile's population were political exiles - one million people in a country of 10 million. Many of them had been tortured and their loved ones had "disappeared". (My own brother in law was one of these "desaparecidos" - "disappeared people"). His family lived for decades not knowing his fate, until they finally learned what they had suspected all along - he'd been tortured to death, leaving a wife and a young son behind. It was far, far too late in coming, but still I'm glad to hear that Pinochet is being held accountable for some of his deeds and I hope he is still "lucid" enough to be aware of what is happening.