Pinochet dead

[Comrade_Scott]

Chile's former military leader Augusto Pinochet has died, the Santiago hospital treating him after an earlier heart attack has announced.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6167237.stm

well guys one more fucker dying while not paying for his crimes, shit thousands of people are dead and no one paying for the crimes were getting nowhere fast with the justice systems of these countries.... your thoughts

[h&s]

He died a free man. :(

The British judicial system failed us once again.... <_<

[RevolutionaryMarxist]

Still dead anyway =)

[Vargha Poralli]

I wish his stroke gave him such a pain :angry: befor he died.

Though i am pissed that he died as a free man.

[Comrade_Scott]

where is the justice for the families.. he killed thousands and imprisoned hundreds if not thousands of innocent people.... and still he died a free man thats not justice hats shit....SHIT&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;

[bolshevik butcher]

Regan, Pinochet, Freeman, I&#39;m just waiting for Thatcher now&#33; Yeh it&#39;s a tragedy he died as a free man but at least he&#39;s dead now.

[Noah]

PWND

[Wiesty]

May the fucker rest in pieces

[Chocobo]

And who will the US help replace him with this time?

[RedStarOverChina]

The bourgeoisie judiciary system wasn&#39;t gonna get him back for us. Those who think it would have another thing coming.

I can&#39;t believe no one tried to assassinate him. How hard could it be to put a fucking bullet in his bald head?

[Demogorgon]

Just like the bastard to get away from justice one way or another. I mean the world is a better place for his death and all, but it would have been good to have a long set of convictions and punishments against him before he went.

[Socialistpenguin]

Ah, faithful puppets are never the ones to be prosecuted. Oh well. Apart from that, glad the fucker&#39;s dead: my only regret is that he didn&#39;t die sooner.
C&#39;MON THATCHER&#33; You&#39;ve hung on for far too long now.

[RedAnarchist]

I would love to see, on the news, people dancing in the streets and singing leftist songs. :D

Can&#39;t wait to get rid of Thatcher so we can celebrate here in Britain.

[bcbm]

Good riddance.

[Marukusu]

Finally.
The next time I drink, I will toast for Salvador Allende and all the other comrades that perished in Chile under Pinochet.

[Dominicana_1965]

GOOD BYE&#33;

[Ander]

Seeya later fuckface&#33;

You got much more than you deserved, and I hope while you were lying on your deathbed it hurt&#33;

[Phalanx]

I hope the next on Deaths&#39; list are current imperialists.

What about Pinochet&#39;s dad?

[Karl Marx's Camel]

H. Upmann has been lighted.

To bad, like mentioned, that he died a free man.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

BB:

"Regan, Pinochet, Freeman, I&#39;m just waiting for Thatcher now&#33;"

And Sharon&#33;

[Ander]

Did anyone else notice the thread is called Pinochet dad

Don&#39;t worry about Sharon, he&#39;s pretty much done for.

[ComradeRed]

Originally posted by Tatanka [email protected] 10, 2006 03:14 pm
I hope the next on Deaths&#39; list are current imperialists.

What about Pinochet&#39;s dad?
I couldn&#39;t stand the spelling error, so I changed it.

[drain.you]

someone txt me the news when i was at work, so fucking glad that this piece of shit is gone from the earth. even happier that he not getting state funeral cos that wud b shit for current pressident. worried about the violent clashes in chile i seen on the news, dunno how wide spread they are like.
Let us drink to comrade Allende&#39;s memory and rejoice with the remaining chilean comrades&#33;

[Wanted Man]

Police of "socialist" Chilean government vs anti-Pinochet protesters:


SANTIAGO (ANP) - Opponents of the regime of general Augusto Pinochet have come to blows with the police in front of the presidential palace in the Chilean capital of Santiago on Sunday, while celebrating the death of the former dictator.

Violence broke out when the police tried to prevent a crowd of over a thousand people from marching to the central square Alameda. The police used water cannons and tear gas, while the demonstrators threw rocks and bottles.

Thousands of people took to the streets on Sunday to celebrate Pinochet&#39;s passing. The general passed away in a hospital earlier that day.

Source: http://www.planet.nl/planet/show/id=67777/...86149/sc=286815 (http://www.planet.nl/planet/show/id=67777/contentid=786149/sc=286815)

Translated by me.

[WUOrevolt]

Hes dead, but his legacy isnt. The rest of his gang of thugs are still alive though, and at least they are being pursued.

[bcbm]

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/061211/481/xch...04chilepinochet (http://news.yahoo.com/photo/061211/481/xchi13312110038&g=events/wl/121304chilepinochet)

[Delta]

Too bad he was free, but at least his existence is over.

[loveme4whoiam]

I just turned on my pc, and this appeared in MSN Today&#39;s news thing. It&#39;s scary how wilfully ignorant people can be.


Chile bids farewell to Pinochet


By Gideon Long

SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - Thousands of Chileans, some praying and many in tears, filed past the coffin of Augusto Pinochet on Monday as his family criticised the government for denying the former dictator a state funeral.

Pinochet, who polarised Chile during his repressive 17-year rule from 1973-1990 when more than 3,000 people were killed in political violence, died on Sunday after suffering a heart attack a week earlier. He was 91.

News of his death prompted some Chileans to dance in the streets and others to weep, as his legacy is still hotly debated more than three decades after he swept to power in a swift and violent coup.

Some Chileans say the general saved their country from communism while others regard him as a murderer who escaped justice and should have been tried for human rights abuses.

President Michelle Bachelet said there would be no official mourning and the general would be given a military but not a full state funeral.

Bachelet, who survived one of Pinochet&#39;s most notorious detention centres, will not attend Tuesday&#39;s funeral but her defence minister Vivianne Blanlot will.

Marco Antonio Pinochet, one of the former dictator&#39;s five children, described the government&#39;s decision as "petty" and said it was "incapable of taking a noble stance at this moment in history.

"Maybe not today, but as time passes, I believe my father will take the place he deserves in the history of Chile," he said in an interview with Chilean television.

Yet Bachelet defended her decision, saying that in situations where there are no hard-and-fast rules, "leaders, governors, have to take decisions in the interests of the whole country".

NOT STALIN OR HITLER

During Pinochet&#39;s rule some 28,000 people were tortured and hundreds of thousands of Chileans went into exile.

The general&#39;s supporters say his coup was necessary to save Chile from chaos and possible civil war. They also highlight the free-market reforms of the Pinochet era, saying they lay the foundations for the country&#39;s long-term political stability and strong economy rare in South America.

"The people who died under the military regime were plotting against Pinochet," said 17-year-old Alan Rueckert, who turned up to see Pinochet&#39;s coffin in his school uniform, clutching a portrait of the dead general.

"It wasn&#39;t a rein of terror like Stalin or Hitler," said the teen-ager, born around the time Pinochet relinquished power. "A lot of people were armed in preparation for civil war.

Pinochet&#39;s death triggered reactions from around the world. He was the best known of South America&#39;s Cold War dictators and his regime became a by-word for human rights abuses.

"General Augusto Pinochet symbolised a dark period in South America&#39;s history, a long night when the lights of democracy disappeared, stamped out by authoritarian coups," Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in a statement.

As well as facing charges of murder and torture, Pinochet was more recently accused of tax fraud and embezzlement related to &#036;27 million (14 million pounds) stashed in foreign bank accounts.

But he died without being brought to trial as his defence lawyers argued he was too ill to face charges.

By lunchtime on Monday, several thousand people had gathered to see Pinochet&#39;s body as it lay in state.

The general&#39;s body was clearly visible inside his glass-topped coffin, dressed in a dark blue military uniform. His cap, sword and a braided military jacket were draped at the foot of the coffin.

"We&#39;ve come in recognition of the great thing he did in saving us from the Marxist-Leninist cancer," said Octavio Chau, a 32-year-old music producer waiting to pay his respects.

"It&#39;s thanks to that that we&#39;re a free country."

Graffiti scrawled on the walls of buildings in central Santiago expressed different emotions. "Today, the murderer died," read one message.

Said another: "Pinochet, give my regards to the devil."

[MolotovLuv]

I&#39;m so happy this asshole is rotting, I&#39;ll be celebrating all week&#33; To bad he&#39;s being cremated, if anyone needs piss all over their grave it&#39;s him. And yes...it is a shame he died so peacefully. <_<

[red team]

Numa Numa&#33; (http://youtube.com/watch?v=f-JbSj9L6YE)