@Pinochet73,
Pinochet73;45819 wrote:Think about it -- he overthrew Communism in Latin America in 1973 -- Communism, the pet rock of Western intelligentsia at that time. He then suppressed thousands of scumbaggie leftists of all sorts, but especially college students, which was necessary to secure peace in Chile. Meanwhile, all of this was reported on by a decidedly LEFTIST media, world-wide. No wonder you believe such lies. You're still living in the 1960s, for crying out loud. You need to update your headgear.
At the time of his death in December 2006, around 300 criminal charges were still pending against him in Chile for human rights abuses (torture, forced disappearance, assassination, etc.), tax evasion and embezzlement under his rule and afterwards. The dictatorship's violence was directed not only against dissidents, but also against their families and other civilians. The Rettig Report concluded that 2,279 persons who disappeared during the military government were killed for political reasons, and approximately 30,000 tortured according to the later Valech Report, while several thousand were exiled.
Pinochet was single handedly one of the most brutal dictators of Chile EVER.
It scares me that you admire such a man...