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Titolo: 11 settembre di tanto tempo fa

11 set 20:15  Cile: manifestazione per ricordare il golpe di Pinochet
SANTIAGO - Centinaia di persone hanno manifestato oggi nelle strade
del centro di Santiago del Cile per ricordare le vittime della
dittatura di Augusto Pinochet. Il generale ando' al potere 32 anni fa
con un sanguinoso colpo di stato. Il corteo ha sfilato sventolando
bandiere del Partito comunista e foto di Salvador Allende, il
presidente del Cile deposto da Pinochet l'11 settembre 1973. La
dittatura di Pinochet e' terminata nel 1990. (Agr)
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    Consciously or unconsciously, a conspiracy of silence about the
torture spread slowly through the country. Political prison and
torture constituted a state policy during the military regime, defined
and promoted by the political authorities of the period which
mobilized personnel and resources of various public organizations and
issued decrees and laws that protected such repressive behavior. And
this had the support, explicit sometimes but almost always implicit,
of the only power that was not a member of that regime: the judiciary.
    [More than 18,000 of the 35,868 respondents] said they were
detained between September and December 1973. During that period,
torture was practiced by members of the Armed Forces and Carabineros
[paramilitary police] in what became a generalized practice on a
national scale.
    [More than 5,266 respondents] were political prisoners detained
between January 1974 and August 1977, when new modalities of detention
and torture were created. By June 1974, the DINA [Directorate of
National Intelligence] was granted full legal recognition and its own
budget.
    [Almost 4,000 respondents] were persons detained for political
motives between August 1977 and March 1990. The final period of the
repressive process was distinguished by the activities of the CNI
[National Information Center.] In 3,059 cases, the detainees were kept
in CNI facilities.
    As the citizenry rearticulated itself politically, the
Investigations Department Police [police detectives] and Carabineros
intervened again most actively in the tasks of coercion, detaining
(for shorter periods) and torturing (with the usual methods) either on
their own or placing oppositionists at the disposal of the CNI,
military or civilian tribunals for processing.
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Methods of torture
    The methods of torture described by witnesses before this
Commission included:
    * Repeated beatings
    * Deliberate corporal lesions
    * Bodily hangings [suspensions]
    * Forced positions
    * Application of electricity
    * Threats
    * Mock execution by firing squad
    * Humiliation
    * Stripping down to nakedness
    * Sexual aggression and violence
    * Witnessing and listening to torture committed on others
    * Russian roulette
    * Witnessing the execution of other detainees
    * Confinement in subhuman conditions
    * Deliberate privation of means of existence
    * Sleep deprivation or interruption
    * Asphyxia
    * Exposure to extreme temperatures
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Sexual violence against women
    This Commission heard testimony from 3,399 women, almost all of
whom said they were the object of sexual violence; 316 said they were
raped. Of the latter, 229 were detained while pregnant. Because of the
torture they suffered, 20 of them aborted and 15 gave birth while in
prison. Thirteen women said they were made pregnant by their captors;
six of those pregnancies came to term.
    Utilized as places of detention and interrogation were the most
diverse facilities: Armed Forces bases, police precinct houses, ships,
city halls, stadiums, prison camps, jails and secret prisons operated
by the DINA and CNI.
    Practically everyone who testified before the Commission stated
that they were detained with extreme violence, some in front of their
children, in the middle of the night, with shouts, blows and threats
of death made to the detainee and other family members, creating an
atmosphere of terror and anguish.
    Although prison conditions varied, detainees generally slept on
the floor, without a mattress or blanket; they were deprived of food
and water or were given scant and awful food. They lived in crowded
and unhealthy conditions, without access to toilets or baths, and were
subjected to constant humiliation and abuses of power.
    [At DINA facilities] daily life was characterized by insalubrious
physical conditions and constant psychological pressure on the
prisoners, who were kept tied up, blindfolded and in total
uncertainty. At all times, they were exposed to brutal interrogations.
    Of the total number of witnesses, 23,856 were men; 3,399 were
women. Of the younger detainees, 766 were between 16 and 17 years old;
226 were between 13 and 15, and 88 were 12 years old and younger.
    In addition to inflicting physical trauma, the torture left
psychological consequences.
    Most witnesses described behavioral, emotional and psychosocial
effects. Many said they had felt — and still feel — insecure and
fearful, humiliated, ashamed and guilty; depressed, anxiety-ridden and
hopeless. Some persons mentioned alterations in their concentration
and memory; others cited conflicts, crises and breakups within their
families, as well as conjugal problems. They also mentioned the loss
of reference groups and social networks. Most victims mentioned sleep
disturbances and chronic insomnia, as well as behavioral inhibitions,
phobias and fears.
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Giusto per ricordare...

 11 set 20:15  Cile: manifestazione per ricordare il golpe di Pinochet
Nel pensiero semplice di sinistra è cosi' che funziona ? Chiodo antico 
scaccia chiodo moderno ?
Clas 

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Che fai, eviti il problema? Ovviamenti quelli torturati da Pinochet,
che ha preso il potere anche grazie alla Cia in nome della realpolitik
di kissinger, erano solo
comunisti/sovietici/stalinisti/leninisti/trozkisti/maoisti...
Pensa il problema è talmente antico che hanno messo su addirittura una
commissione per indagare sui crimini del dittatore nel 2004... Proprio
antico.
Ennesima tua figuraccia.