Chile: A 46 years of civilian-military coup

No impunity Trial and punishment of those responsible. A 46 years of civilian-military coup, that swept through blood and fire "peaceful road to socialism" and ended more than 40.000 victims of the Pinochet dictatorship, between them, more of 3.000 They were executed or disappeared between 1973 Y 1990, reports delivered by the Valech Commission. Almost half a century later, there has been no trial and punishment of those responsible for the political genocide of our people.

A policy of conciliation

A few months after the departure agreed to dictatorship, It was generated, "the Rettig Report", in order to clarify human rights violations, during the dictatorship. The Rettig Report, he performed this commission only recorded executions and disappearances. Total, he recognized 2.279 deaths at the hands of security forces during the dictatorship of Pinochet. Later, -bautizada the Valech Commission, in honor of Santiago exobispo, Sergio Valech- It was originally incorporated in 2003 for further information about repression. In November 2004 He presented a report in which he realized over 30.000 victims, 28.459 illegal detentions, torture, executions and disappearances.

The second report of the Valech Commission, It recognizes a total of more than 40.018 victims of the dictatorship. After 18 months of work and 32.000 complaints, the Commission only gave almost valid 10.000 of this. Survivors receive a pension "repair" Monthly.

The policies carried out subsequent dictatorship, by the governments of the former Concertación (ex - New Majority with the Communist Party) and Right, They have only searched conciliate and memory banalizar, through reports seeking to achieve "peace and reconciliation" of a country, the humiliations suffered the most egregious human rights can tell our story. Through scholarships and grants of money trying to curb a collective memory that each year, to the streets to say that memory is still intact.

A 46 years, there has been no effective justice those responsible for torture, many of them have died without being prosecuted and others have not been any effective day jail, rather they have been involved in outrageous profits. So is the case of former torture centers, where none has become a center for survivors recalled memory. For Venda Sexy house where sexual violence was applied political, which it has been sold to a real estate under the silent accomplice under the Chilean state despite having been declared a national and according to the law was forbidden historic monument amendment.

no forgiveness, Not forgetting, No to impunity!

The Chilean State, covered by conglomerates and political parties employer has kept intact the legacy of the dictatorship by protecting privileged torturers and genocidal, as well as all the privatization plan of neoliberal policies in education, Health, AFP, among others that have been further from the 90 onwards, all under the Constitution of Pinochet. As well as, They continue to swell the numbers killed in "democracy", as in the case of Camilo Catrillanca, Macarena Valdes, Rodrigo Cisternas, among many killed by the state and its repressive forces.

In this frame, every 11 September is dumped to memory, but mainly to the urgency of justice, Justice will not be found under the framework of this regime downplays and denies the crimes and torture that occurred and continue to persist. Memory and justice should not only be a fact of commemoration but the prelude to a change to turn everything up for social transformation.

No Impunity: Trial and punishment with common prison l-s responsible!
Opening all files of the dictatorship!
Not for sale Venda Sexy!
Recovery former torture centers survivors!

Camila Millaray, anticapitalist movement

LIS (International Socialist League)