Raisethefist.com: September 11, 1973 in Chile
September 11, 1973 in Chile
by rtf Thu Sep 11 22:47:23 PDT 2003
|
| |
|
|
On September 11, 1973, war planes--part of a military coup --
attacked Chile's largest city, leaving the La Moneda presidential
palace in flames, and it's democratically elected president,
Salvador Allende dead. The coup was carried out by
troops who were directed, trained, and funded by the United
States of America/CIA, and it inaugurated a bloodbath from
which Chile has never recovered.
|
On September 11, 1973, war planes--part of a military coup --
attacked Chile's largest city, leaving the La Moneda presidential
palace in flames, and it's democratically elected president,
Salvador Allende dead. The coup was carried out by
troops who were directed, trained, and funded by the United
States of America/CIA, and it inaugurated a bloodbath from
which Chile has never recovered.
Several hundred were machine-gunned in the Santiago soccer
stadium, which was turned into a makeshift concentration camp
and torture center. Others were just shot to death in the street,
at military barracks and in other detention centers—many after
enduring grotesque torture. Even some American civilians were
killed. All in all, more than 60,000 Chileans were subjected to
torture under 17 years of brutal military dictatorship under
Augusto Pinochet, and 1 million people were forced into exile—
all in a country of less than 14 million.
It was all a part of Operation Condor, a covert plan created by
the CIA and Henry Kissinger involving six Latin American
countries including Chile, to assassinate thousands of political
opponents. It's ironic that the official death toll in the Chilean
coup—3,197—is almost identical to the number killed on 9/11
in America.
In the last 50 years, the United States has promoted, financed
and participated in over 200 incursions and 20 separate wars,
killing over 8,000,000 people.
1952 - 79, 70,000 Iranians killed. ( Ayatollah Khomeini, US
public enemy for the 1980s, was on the CIA payroll while in exile
in Paris in 1970s, as were Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden
at different times and in different places. )
1954 - 120,000 Guatemalans killed
1954 - 1975, 4,000,000 Vietnamese and Cambodians killed.
1965 - 3,000 Dominican Republicans killed
1965 - 800,000 Indonesians killed
1973 - 30,000 Chileans killed
1975 - 250,000 East Timorese killed
1970s - 1,000,000 Angolans killed
1984 - 30,000 Nicaraguans killed
1980s - 80,000 El Salvadoreans killed
1989 - 8,000 Panamanians killed in an attempt to capture
George H. Bush's CIA partner now turned enemy, Manuel
Noriega,
1980s - over 700,000 Libyans, Grenadians, Somalians, Haitians,
Afghanistanis, Sudanese, Brazilians, Argentineans and
Yugoslavians killed,
1991 - over 1,000,000 Iraqis killed, including over 500,000
children -- about which Madeline Albright ( then, Secretary of
State ) said "their deaths are worth the cost". While George W.
Bush owns over 80% of the oil wells in Kuwait, trouble will
continue there.
( Source: Philip Bradbury, Insight Magazine, November 2001 )
and to add to that
8,000 dead - Iraq since March 2003
4,000 dead - Afghanistan since Dec 2002
enough yet? or do we want more.. it's time that as the human
race we come together and say ENOUGH ALREADY!! YA BASTA!!
"civil disobedience. . . is not our problem. Our problem is civil
obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the
world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their
government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed
because of this obedience. . . Our problem is that people are
obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation
and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people
are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the
while the grand thieves are running the country. That's our
problem." -----Howard Zinn, "Failure to Quit", p. 45
**************************************
MORE INFOMATION ON THE COUP
1) http://www.namebase.org/chile.html
2) http://www.theotherseptember11chile1973.net/
3)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Pinochet_on_trial/Story/0,2763,209222,00.html
*************************************
PICTURES
Santiago, Chile. September 11th, 1973.
"Carmen Gloria Quintana near her home in Santiago in
July of 1987. Quintana, then 18 years old, suffered burns over
65 percent of her body at the hands of a Chilean army patrol on
July 2, 1986 in one of the worst incidents of violence during the
dictatorship of Chilean General Augusto Pinochet. Rodrigo Rojas
Denegri, a 19-year-old photographer and son of a Chilean exile,
was killed in the same incident. They were arrested during
protests against the military regime in a neighborhood of
Santiago by an army patrol, searched, beaten, held within
proximity of inflammable material, sprinkled with fuel, set on
fire, and taken to a place on the outskirts of the city where they
were unable to receive medical care, and there they were
abandoned."
|
by puma shose on line ( Sun Mar 14 22:57:31 CDT 2010
)
|
|
