Chile ad thanking military in dictatorship years causes stir
Chile ad thanking military in dictatorship years causes stir
Tue Sep 13, 2016 2:34pm EDT
A two-page newspaper advertisement in Chile commemorating members of the armed forces killed during the nation's 1973 to 1990 right-wing military dictatorship is causing a stir in a country still divided by its political history.
During the dictatorship, which began on Sept. 11, 1973 when military strongman Augusto Pinochet overthrew the elected socialist president Salvador Allende, an estimated 3,200 people were killed and 28,000 tortured by the state.
While most Chileans abhor the abuses of the era, a sizeable minority considers Pinochet's government to have been a necessary bulwark against communism.
"Forty-three years after the liberation, Chileans grateful to the armed forces and order haven't forgotten the sacrifices they made for the fatherland," read the insert, published in national newspaper La Tercera on Sunday. La Tercera did not say who had placed the insert.
More:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-chile-dictatorship-idUSKCN11J2EJ
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141571739
