Judge arrests Pinochet\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/p>
Judge arrests Pinochet. Clinton is next. Death Squads. Chile. Colombia. Drug\r\nWar.<\/p>\r\n
Death Squad generalissimo Augusto Pinochet gets his just reward today for\r\noverthrowing an elected government in 1973, and murdering and torturing\r\nthousands in Chile. Clinton will get his just reward soon. For consciously\r\nfunding and training Colombian Drug-War, Death Squads. We will NEVER forget.\r\nMurder is murder is murder. And complicity to murder. The Death Squads are just\r\nanother arm of the powers-that-be worldwide. Here in the USA the powers-that-be\r\nfund and control their Republicrat one-party dictatorship. <\/p>\r\n
Wherever they are, Death Squads are usually just the armed lobbyists of a\r\ncorporate-controlled government gone mad. Drugs are just the latest\r\n\"crime\" used by these true criminals and mass-murderers to justify\r\ntheir power. \"Commies\" and \"drug-fiends\" and union\r\norganizers and land reformers. Any reason or \"crime\" will do. Even\r\ndemocracy has not impeded the death squads. Only constant vigilance can keep\r\ntheir bloodlust in check. How many people has Bush executed today?<\/p>\r\n
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*Drug War, Death Squad LINKS worldwide.<\/i><\/b> Revised. Huge LINKS\r\nlist. Lists in alphabetical and chronological order.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/rnb\/y\/squads.htm \r\nand
\r\nhttp:\/\/members.fortunecity.com\/multi19\/squads.htm\r\n<\/p>\r\n
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Chile Judge Orders Arrest, Trial of Pinochet<\/p>\r\n
By Tiffany Woods<\/p>\r\n
12\/01\/00<\/p>\r\n
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A Chilean judge on Friday ordered Gen. Augusto Pinochet\r\nplaced under house arrest and tried on charges of kidnapping and homicide during\r\nhis 1973-1990 rule, making it possible for the former dictator to be put on\r\ntrial for the first time, a court order said.<\/p>\r\n
A Chilean judge ordered the arrest and trial of Gen. Augusto Pinochet\r\nDecember 1, 2000 for alleged kidnapping during his 1973-1990 dictatorship.\r\nAccording to an official report, 3,197 people died or disappeared in political\r\nviolence during Pinochet's rule. He is seen greeting supporters on his 85th\r\nbirthday outside his house in Santiago, November 25. Photo by Claudia Daut<\/p>\r\n
A date has not been disclosed for a possible trial. Pinochet's legal team has\r\nsaid it will file a motion on Saturday to block his arrest.<\/p>\r\n
Judge Juan Guzman ordered the arrest for allegedly planning and organizing\r\nthe deaths and\/or disappearances of 77 leftists and union leaders, human rights\r\nlawyer Jose Galiano said.<\/p>\r\n
The 77 were alleged to be victims of the \"Death Caravan,\" a\r\nmilitary squad in a helicopter that landed in selected towns in Chile,\r\nparticularly in the north, in the initial days after Pinochet's Sept. 11, 1973,\r\ncoup.<\/p>\r\n
Court sources said Pinochet, 85, had not yet been told of the arrest warrant\r\nwhen it was announced. The Pinochet Foundation said he was in Bucalemu, 80 miles\r\n(130 km) west of Santiago.<\/p>\r\n
\"This disappoints me. Without even questioning him, Pinochet is being\r\nput on trial,\" said Pinochet advisor Fernando Barros.<\/p>\r\n
Human rights lawyer Eduardo Contreras cried victory. \"I can't hide the\r\nemotion I feel upon seeing an unbiased judge apply the law. Chileans are not\r\nafraid to judge a dictator,\" he said.<\/p>\r\n
The government reiterated its stance that the country's justice system must\r\nwork independently. \"The most important thing is that Chileans are equal\r\nunder the law. We must let the courts do their job,\" said government\r\nspokesman Claudio Huepe.<\/p>\r\n
For years, opponents have wanted to try Pinochet, but the nation's courts\r\nrefused to open cases against him. It was not until January 1998, when the\r\nCommunist Party filed a lawsuit against him, that crusader Guzman decided to\r\ninvestigate.<\/p>\r\n
Guzman, who has traveled the country digging up unidentified corpses believed\r\nto be killed by the military during the dictatorship, is now examining more than\r\n180 lawsuits against Pinochet and some of his colleagues.<\/p>\r\n
According to an official report, 3,197 people died or disappeared and are\r\npresumed dead in political violence during Pinochet's 17-year rule, including 90\r\nsecurity personnel.<\/p>\r\n
Guzman's latest order caught Chile by surprise because Pinochet was first\r\nexpected to undergo psychological exams, legally required in Chile for anyone\r\nover 70 who faces a trial. A date for the tests has not been disclosed. Pinochet\r\ncould escape trial if they show he is mad or demented.<\/p>\r\n
Guzman's order came on the same day that Vicente Fox took over as president\r\nin Mexico, ending 71 years of one-party rule.<\/p>\r\n
And it came amid dramatic change in other Latin American nations including\r\nneighboring Peru, which is awaiting a new presidential election after Congress\r\ndeclared Alberto Fujimori \"morally unfit\" to govern after a corruption\r\nscandal.<\/p>\r\n
And in Argentina, courts are probing human rights abuses for possible links\r\nto Pinochet. Argentina has requested the extradition of Pinochet, who just\r\nrecovered from pneumonia, for his suspected role in the 1974 car-bomb murder of\r\nChile's former army chief, Carlos Prats, who opposed Pinochet's coup.<\/p>\r\n
Last month, an Argentine federal court sentenced former Chilean intelligence\r\nofficer Enrique Arancibia to life in prison for planting the bomb that killed\r\nPrats and his wife.<\/p>\r\n
Also in November, Chilean Judge Sergio Munoz charged army Gen. Hernan Ramirez\r\nwith alleged involvement in the 1982 homicide of a union leader during\r\nPinochet's rule.<\/p>\r\n
In October 1998, police detained him in Britain at the request of a Spanish\r\njudge who wanted to try him on charges of torture. He spent 503 days in custody\r\nbefore being allowed to return home after Britain ruled he was too old and sick\r\nto undergo trial in Spain.<\/p>\r\n
Spain and Britain hailed Guzman's decision.<\/p>\r\n
\"It is a positive step for universal justice and the citizens of Chile\r\nto affirm their independence and their ability to apply the law to the biggest\r\ncriminal in the history of Chile,\" said Joan Garces, a Spanish lawyer.<\/p>\r\n
London-based Amnesty International said: \"For years there have been\r\nlayers of impunity in Chile. At long last they are being peeled away.\"<\/p>\r\n
\"This arrest is a great victory for Pinochet's thousands of\r\nvictims,\" said Jose Miguel Vivanco, executive director of Human Rights\r\nWatch's Americas division. \"It does credit to Chilean democracy and to its\r\nlegal system.\"<\/p>\r\n
--- end of December 1, 2000 Reuters article ---<\/p>\r\n
*U.S. Rightist Republican-led (GOP) Drug War. GOP fascists lead,\r\nDemocrat flunkies follow. Huge LINKS list! Amnesty 2000. <\/i><\/b>Revised\r\nedition. GOP's holy war. Drug war leaders: rabid right, hate radio, hate\r\ntelevision, NRA (National Rifle Association), religious right, (snortin') George\r\nBush the hypocrite, etc..
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/rnb\/y\/gop.htm <\/p>\r\n
*Greens and the Drug War. Worldwide. LINKS.<\/i><\/b> Green Party\r\ncandidates, positions, platforms, etc.. Concerning the Drug War, cannabis,\r\nmarijuana, harm reduction, etc.. Ralph Nader info, links.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/rnb\/y\/greens.htm\r\nand
\r\nhttp:\/\/members.fortunecity.com\/multi19\/greens.htm\r\nand
\r\n*9-00. MAP\/DrugNews SEARCH SHORTCUT for many press articles about RALPH\r\nNADER's September 8, 2000 press conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he\r\ncalled for legalizing cannabis\/marijuana, and for harm reduction drug reform.<\/i><\/b>\r\nRalph Nader \"called for the legalization of marijuana as part of an\r\noverhaul of the nation's 'self-defeating and antiquated drug laws.' ...\r\nLegalizing marijuana, Nader said, would allow the government to regulate and\r\npotentially tax its use like tobacco products.\" -Albuquerque Journal,\r\nSeptember 8, 2000.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.mapinc.org\/find?BK=nader+johnson+santa&YY1=1997 <\/p>\r\n
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