The War on Democracy Page #6
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and then dipping down
and sending their bombs into the Moneda,
From inside the palace
true to his promise
not too surrender the government
for which the ordinary people of Chile
had voted
He broadcast this last message
then he shoot himself
With General Pinochet in power
Washington again denied
it had destroyed another democracy
We had no contact with any of the people
that carried out the military coup
and therefore the coup
that overthrew Allende was done,,,
uh, without conduct,,, contact
with the United States,
A very different story is told
In October 1 970,
the CIA cabled its man in Chile
"it is firm and continuing policy
that Allende be overthrown by a coup"
When that happened three years later
a US official cabled back to Washington
"Chile's coup dtat was close to perfect"
Fascism is a word that's often misused,,,
but you've experienced it, the real thing,
Yeah, I think so,
When,,, When did you realize
that you were,,,ensnarled by fascism?
When did it manifest itself?
I think it was evident from the very beginning,
Just the ferocity,
the sheer brute force that they used,
The disregard for any kind of human dignity,
I mean, their aim
was really to make you into a thing,
I think., in order to protect themselves
because if they made you into a thing,
then they didn't have to have
human feelings towards you,
They dehumanized you,
from the very beginning,
Once again, a Latin American elite
was delighted to be rescued by fascism
A country has to be well set,
has to be well run, well worked,
and see that everyone does the work.
cos if they don't,
then that country goes to the dogs,
This is the one man
that's been able to hold them.
I don't believe there's any torturing done
in this country,
Because, you understand one thing,
why torture somebody
when you can shoot them?,
This is where they tortured and killed them
Villa Grimaldi was once a palatial home
in a suburb of Santiago
Under Pinochet, it became a place of horror
Today, it's a memorial to its many victims
Sara De Witt then a student activist
was a survivor
What was the date that you were arrested?
Do you remember?
Oh, yes, I was picked up on 3rd April, 1 975,
seven oclock.,. on the dot,
(Pilger) So, the junta had been in power
for about 1 8months?
Yes,
So when I realize, you know,
someone had put what
I imagine was a gun in my back and saying,,,
and said to me, "Don't make any noise,
don't try to run, because we will shoot you,
"You are coming with us,"
In a strange wooden tower like this
in spaces the size of a dogs kennel
people were tortured to death
(De Witt) They took me to this room, you know,
they were punching me, hitting me,
grabbing my nipples,
telling me that I was a whore,
So, they asked me to take off my clothes
and they tied,,,they tied me up,
And then they started giving me electricity,
Now, the electricity was all the time
inside my vagina, in my breasts,
and then it was going round, you know,
round my body, my legs, my arms,
And when they did that, they would stop,
asking me questions, you know,
and then touching me everywhere
and shouting, abusing,
And then they would go -
they continue with electricity,
Duane Clarridge was head of the ClA's
Latin American division in the early 1 980s
Chile, the only reason it exists,
is because of Pinochet,
At a huge human price,
What human price? Gimme a break!
The thousands who were disappeared
and murdered,
Thousands? You count 'em,
What thousands?
And don't talk to me
about Truth Commissions,
I've seen their names
in the cemetery in Santiago,
- You're saying they're fakes?
- There aren't thousands,
- Well,,,
- There aren't thousands, sir,
There are thousands, each name documented
by human rights organizations
some of them remembered here
on the memorial wall at Villa Grimaldi
(Pilger) You have a couple of friends there?
(De Witt) Yes, yes,
I have friends,
Mainly people from my training,
I got,,, There is a girl there, Jacqueline Rigi,
Another one Cecilia Larrain,
She was pregnant, Cecilia,
three months pregnant, when they took her,
They took another woman, Elizabeth Recas
who was seven months pregnant,
She went missing as well,
Doesn't bear thinking about, does it?
No, because, erm.,, sometimes, you know,
I think about,,, what were they feeling,
you know, when they were being killed?
And why, you know, and whether they,,,
Sometimes, I think too much,
and I start feeling, you know, like the pain,
What do you feel when you are being killed?
And in such a way that I find it,,,
- Well, I find frightened, really,
- Yeah,
Because you wish, you know, that you
could have done something for them.
Such,,, The isolation, You must feel totally,,,
I don't know, I don't know, What do you think?,
- Alone,
- Very, very much alone,
It was a period in which almost everybody
in the present situation
regards as a dark time,
in which the CIA played a major role,
That's right, They played a major role
in overthrowing whatshisname,
Whatshisname was Salvador Allende,
- Yeah, fine,
- He was democratically elected,
Right, OK
Is that OK to overthrow
a democratically elected government?
It depends
what your national security interests are,
Are you denying that Pinochet
caused huge suffering in that country?
I don't,,, l,,, l,,, Huge, I don't buy,
That he committed crimes, I agree,
- But it's worth it? Is that what you're saying?
- Yes,
- Yeah,
Sometimes, unfortunately, things have to be
changed in a rather ugly way,
By the late '70s, most of Latin America
was controlled by dictators
including those, like Pinochet
who are openly fascist
All of them were backed directly and indirectly
by the United States
They sent their henchmen too be trained here
at the School of the Americas in Georgia
Officially, it was described
as little more than a boy scout camp
teaching American values
such as respect for human rights
In fact, from these manuals were taught
interrogation and torture techniques
Major Joseph Blair taught at the School
of the Americas in the early 1 980s
The doctrine that was taught
was that if you want information,
you use physical abuse,
you use false imprisonment,
you use threats to family members,
you use virtually any method necessary
to get what you want,
- Torture?
- And killing,
- Killing?
- Killing,
If there's someone you don't want,
you kill them.
If you can't get the information you want,
if you can't get that person to shut up
or stop what they're doing,
you simply assassinate 'em,
and you assassinate 'em
with one of your death squads,
(Rapid gunfire)
This is a death squad in action
in El Salvador
Actually, it's the national police
many of whom were trained
at the School of the Americas
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