“My husband was under arrest. I went to see the commander of the regiment, and he told me not to worry, that they were going to release him for Christmas, that he was a good person. I went to see him December 31, but they told me he was not being held there any more. I came home. A truckload of soldiers had just left a sealed coffin at my front door a few minutes before.”
[Report of the Chilean National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation, Part Three, Chapter Four ]
Good riddance to the bastard. And isn’t that video of Baroness Thatcher cosying up to Pinochet in 1998 (long after we knew what he’d been up to) just sickening?
The Guardian’s obituary, the report above, the various Wikipedia articles on Pinochet’s favoured methods of disposal of troublesome opponents and these tables provide the necessary context to appreciate this statement. Good thing we aren’t supporting any mass-murdering dictators anymore.
[I was intending on putting this little tribute to Maggie’s own favourite dictator up the second I heard of his death, but my net connection was down over the whole weekend. Oh well, just as apppropriate now.]
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