Augusto Pinochet: Difference between revisions

The sheer brutality of his crimes are incredible, after his Coup he sent armed troops to search the capital for left wing sympathisers. Students, writers, catholics, indigenous people, and union workers were rounded up, and sent to torture centers, set up in Santiago. These were sometimes police cells or army barracks, but more often they were converted homes, hotels or offices. His most infamous was that he converted the international soccer stadium into a massive holding centre, the people were split into two lines, ones for death and ones for interogation. The ones in the death line were taken to a field and shot, while the ones for interogation were often tortured for weeks before being released. At the height of the repression he had over sixty of these working arround the clock. He practically turned the whole capital into one giant concentration camp.

He also ran his secret police (DINA) which was renound for there cruelty, torturing prisioners with terrible methods such electro shocks, breaking there bones with hammers, forcing them to play Russian Roulette, crushing there legs under car wheels, melting there flesh with flame throwers, pushing them out of helicopters and forcing them to comit canablism and eat the flesh of fellow murdered prisoners. Other methods specialised in humilation and depravity, such as forcing there heads into buckets field with excruments, having women raped by men with Venereal diseases, one unit was even notorious for forcing there prisoners to have sex with dogs.

Quite often the methods of death were paritcually brutal aswell, some victims were tied to railway tracks, others were loaded into Helecopters and pushed out into the icy depths of the Pacific Ocean, others were sent to death camps in the Atacama desert. Others were blow to pieces with dynamite or loaded into planes and forced out into the Andes, higher than anyone ever went.

Fearing that his puppet officials outsides the cities, in the towns may not be implimenting his policy's Pinochet organised the Caravan of Death. A small elite army unit went from town to town with orders to exterminate any Leftists who avoided the camp. Armed with machine guns, knives and grenades they would enter round up any of Pinochets opponets and exercute them. Though only active for twenty-two days, they killed almost 100 people, up and down the 2485 mile spine of Chile.

Pinochet also arranaged a terrorist bombing in Washington DC, that killed rising star Orlando Letelier, a former minister in the previous government and Pinochet's greatest critic.The attack also killed 25 year old United States citizen Ronni Moffitt, who was in the car with Orlando when the bomb his forcing placed underneath it, went off.