Judge Indicts Ex-Chilean Dictator Pinochet

[maddezmom]

SANTIAGO, Chile - Former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet (news - web sites) was indicted Monday for the kidnapping of nine dissidents and the killing of one of them during his 1973-90 regime.

Judge Juan Guzman said he also put the 89-year old former ruler under house arrest.


Guzman said he made the decision to try Pinochet after carefully reviewing an interview Pinochet gave to a Spanish language television station in Miami.


He said he is convinced Pinochet is healthy enough to stand trial.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=589&ncid=734&e=1&u=/ap/20041213/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/chile_pinochet

[Vidar]

1. Nice to see justice triumph elsewhere in the world.

[PunkPop]

2. 14 years huh?

Hopefully it won't take that long for Bush.

[bluedonkey]

3. This is long overdue

no other comment,cause I can't stay civil on this!

[FlyByNight]

4. Good

'Bout time.

Pinochet can't die slowly and painfully enough.

[John Q. Citizen]

5. About time. I hope the trial is quick and fair. People need some justice

[maddezmom]

6. kick

[Judi Lynn]

7. When given the opportunity to boast,to glorify himself, he couldn't resist

That's probably what turned the tide in the judge's mind. He had heard every claim of infirmity, of non-responsibility in the world once it appeared the state had to do something about Pinochet.

He no doubt just HAD to make that one swaggering boast too many, just as in the good old days when he bragged that not one blade of grass dared to move in Chile without his permission.

Photo from the article....



Rosa Silva, left, and Viviana Diaz, relatives of missing detainees during the regime of Augusto Pinochet (news - web sites), celebrate the announcement by Chilean Judge Juan Guzman over the inditcment of former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet on human rights charges, at the Supreme Court building in Santiago, Chile, Monday, Dec. 13, 2004. (AP Photo/Santiago Llanquin)

The thousands and thousands of tortured and murdered Chilean "suspected" "leftists" (religious and academic people, union workers, union organizers, etc.) no doubt would thank this judge.

WHEN will rightwing dustbags FINALLY see the light and recognize when one after another after another US-backed regimes in Latin America persecute and murder the same people from the same walks of life, there's a reason for that. They are not killing "atheists," nor people who want to strip you of your multiple cars, nor swipe your plasma tvs, they are killing people who are trying to defend their countries against true tyrants. My God, how stupid can rightwingers be, after all this time, after all the access to information? Sheesh.

No wonder the rightwing is pushing adherents to "home school" their kids. No easier way to control what goes into those still unmolded minds.



Go away, Pinochet.

[Zhade]

8. Wonderful picture, JL. Gave me chills (the good kind)!

WHEN will rightwing dustbags FINALLY see the light and recognize when one after another after another US-backed regimes in Latin America persecute and murder the same people from the same walks of life, there's a reason for that. They are not killing "atheists," nor people who want to strip you of your multiple cars, nor swipe your plasma tvs, they are killing people who are trying to defend their countries against true tyrants. My God, how stupid can rightwingers be, after all this time, after all the access to information? Sheesh.

Hey, there are long-term posters RIGHT HERE ON DU who think that the stuff that happened in Latin America under Reagan and Poppy is just "far left bullshit nonsense" or the like. So I can see how long it'll take for some rightwingers to wake up!

[struggle4progress]

9. Amen! eom