Volume 34, Number 11 · June 25, 1987
Pinochet's Way
By Aryeh Neier, Cynthia Brown
'This is different from Argentina,' a Chilean human rights lawyer told us in Santiago in the week before the Pope's dramatic visit in early April. In Argentina, he said, thousands were kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by the military dictatorship during the late 1970s. The 'disappeared,' and members of their families who were denied information on their whereabouts and their fate, suffered acutely. But only a small minority of Argentines had direct experience of the repression, and many were largely oblivious of the cruel practices of the dictatorship.
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